Begorrah Keoghan, Kerrygold Murphy and our friend Siobhan: Micksploitation has gone mainstream again

. The subject was whining about the harmless Lyndsay Lohan vehicle Irish Wish. At the same time, we were going through the usual indecent yearning for the British to claim one of our Oscar-nominated actors for Albion. Get over yourselves. Put away the overused Stephen Rea meme. Nobody likes a postcolonial moaner.

A week or so ago, the XformallyTwitter account for Merriam-Webster dictionaries took its own dive into edgelordism. “What word has the biggest disconnect between spelling and pronunciation? Asking for our friend, Siobhan,” they posted. Following a day or two of it being pointed out there was no disconnect between Irish-language phonetics and how “Siobhan” is pronounced, the site took the offending message down. Were we overreacting? Over ourselves is where we should get? Maybe, but was strange.

Here’s the thing. Even if you fail to over-react, even if you have got over everything, you would surely still wonder why so many Americans remain so relaxed about this class of mid-level racist stereotyping. Yes, the “days since the Brits were at it” meme is enormously amusing, but, though common enough until the 1990s or so, this class of Paddywhackery has now largely vanished from respectable organs in the United Kingdom.

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