“They want us to hate ourselves,” wrote Lawyers of Ireland, a Facebook group, as part of the backlash sparked by the release of a children’s book by that country’s National Council for Curriculum and Assessment (NCCA).
The book depicts two types of families who hold stereotypically depicted “traditional” and “progressive” values, and it vilifies the first for being “too Irish” while lauding the second for being open to change and difference.
“It’s so wildly clichéd and asinine as to almost be beyond offensive,” writes Niamh Uí Bhriain for Gript. “In fact, many people sharing it online yesterday thought it was a parody.”
