Charles Murray’s intellectual forefathers had little to no use for the Irish. As such, they spent a great deal of time and energy trying to figure out just what type of “white people” the Irish were, and how they fit into the family and hierarchy of whiteness. Those who are considered “white” in the 21st century may not have been part of that racial group during an earlier part of American history. Jews, Slavs, Poles, Armenians, as well as Eastern and Southern Europeans more generally, were not considered “real” white people by the consensus scientific authority of the 19th and early to mid 20th centuries. dailykos/story/2014/03/14/1284799/-How-the-Irish-Became-White-Paul-Ryan-s-Ugly-Public-Embrace-of-Anti-Black-Racism-and-Eugenics?fb_action_ids=10202652730532443&fb_action_types=og.likes&fb_source=aggregation&fb_aggregation_id=288381481237582
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