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Re:High School Student Proves “No Irish Need Apply” Signs Ex... by aaronbrethorst on Saturday August 01, 2015 @03:45AM (#9986290)
It's not exactly hard to prove that this used to appear in newspapers all the time. A 10 second search on the LOC website shows a ton of examples of this phrase appearing in papers across America: http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/search/pages/results/?stat...

Professor Jensen should be ashamed of himself for failing to conduct even the most trivial searches for this information.

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Re:High School Student Proves “No Irish Need Apply” Signs Ex... by DanBC on Saturday August 01, 2015 @04:58AM (#9986419)
He accepted that ads were discriminatory. His original paper mentions job ads. His claim was about signs in windows or on buildings.

The fact that he accepts the ads were real makes his claim that Irish were delusionally propagating a myth of oppression even harder to understand.

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Re:High School Student Proves “No Irish Need Apply” Signs Ex... by unstabilo on Saturday August 01, 2015 @04:10AM (#9986345)
You didn't read the search results. Those are not ads, but articles mentioning the phrase, at least on the first page (20 articles).
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Re:High School Student Proves “No Irish Need Apply” Signs Ex... by azernik on Saturday August 01, 2015 @04:53AM (#9986409)
News articles mentioning the phrase were exactly what Jensen claimed would have appeared if the signs existed, and whose absence he claimed proved the non-existence of these signs.

Fried just took the additional initiative of going directly to the newspaper ads, which are primary sources indicating discrimination, rather than the secondary sources of newspaper articles talking about the discrimination.

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Re:High School Student Proves “No Irish Need Apply” Signs Ex... by DonHopkins on Saturday August 01, 2015 @06:55AM (#9986610)
His research is as sloppy as his proofreading. I can see him sputtering and fuming as he angrily types out that last condescending reply to her.
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Re:High School Student Proves “No Irish Need Apply” Signs Ex... by randyrand on Saturday August 01, 2015 @01:54PM (#9987940)
Ashamed? Lol I think he'll be just fine.
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