Yeah, and as alluded to in my previous novel-length post, Ireland is particularly problematic because or the presence of the "nation" of Irish-Americans who started with Irish pride but morphed it into something that's their own a long, long time ago. I mean, that don't excuse St. Paddy's Day (and really, nothing will *ever* to me excuse the city of Chicago coloring the river green for a week) but we're not even really culturally appropriating *Ireland* so much as we are our own Irish-American subculture. Well, we're doing the latter as well I guess, unless leprechauns really are as numerous as I have been led to believe...
A decade ago we would have said "celebrating" the culture.
Good thing we as skeptics know better than to argue that the way we did things a decade ago is correct because it's the way we did things a decade ago, because that would be a facile argument.
Good thing skeptics don't just jump glom onto every bit of PC nonsense that comes along.
Setting aside the well-poisoning of "PC nonsense" you're still not arguing against he idea on any merit. You've declared it wrong, fished out an extreme example to damn the entire idea (guilt by association), made an argument from (I dunno, is ten years ago antiquity or status quo?), and attempted well-poisoning. What you haven't done is to actually engage at all beyond declaring it wrong and making facile, illogical arguments. Meanwhile, the people you're dismissing as bandwagon idiots have given real and representative examples, argued the harm, and yet you're still sticking to your ideology instead.
Instead of acting like an angry creationist, why not blow our collective minds through skeptical examination? Wow us all with reasoned arguments against the idea. You know, like a skeptic.
