ST. Patrick's Day has often been on the fence recently and honestly I think it should stop. Some see it as a white only holiday, which is bullshit, as the phrases is "Everyone is Irish on St. Patrick's Day." And I don't know if you noticed, but mixed races count and when they say "Everyone is Irish on St. Patrick's Day." It's the Irish way of saying "Everyone is equal in my eyes on this day." Others see it as an insult to Gingers, due to the imagery of Leprachauns having red hair and pale skin. Hello? Assholes? Most of Ireland's populace was the result of Scotland intermingling with them. You want to blame the Ginger bullshit on someone, blame them for not keeping it in their pants.
But the one thing I could not stand, was when they badmouth St. Patrick himself, simply because he was Catholic. Now there are a lot of things wrong with the Catholic Doctrine, but not the saints that started it and FYI, St. Patrick was Pagan first. The "Snakes" he scared away weren't the literal, they were people and things that filled the land with deceit. If he were alive today and saw what the Catholic Church was doing, he'd do to it what Jesus did to the Marketplace:
Point being is, you don't have to be Irish to celebrate it, you don't have to be Catholic to celebrate it, you don't even have to celebrate it. All you have to do is wear green, maybe get drunk and have a good time. All that bullshit is set aside and the parties should begin. Have some fun, play some music, hell go out somewhere and stargaze, whatever floats your boat. Point being is that this is a day where we don't dramatize ourselves and actually have some fucking fun.
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