That J.D. Vance Thread

[BrianSoddingBoru4]

As if his statements about women and grannies and his horrendous business practices weren't enough, he's now blaming Irish immigration for a crime wave in the US.

Calling honest, hardworking, law-abiding Irish people 'criminals' is a good way to get yourself kneecapped.

Boru

Update on this: it appears that the ‘evidence’ Vance cited for this was the 2002 Martin Scorsese film Gangs of New York. He missed a few salient points -

-The movie is a sensationalized, highly fictionalized version of real events, not a documentary.

-It takes place more than 160 years ago, so not screamingly relevant to the here-and-now.

-Much if not most of the violent crime in the film was orchestrated and perpetrated by criminals gangs who were anti-immigration. Immigrants in the Five Points were the victims of crime, not the instigators.

Boru