The English colonial repertoire against the Irish was reapplied to Indians and blacks

Evidence

The adventurers to Ireland claimed that their primary purpose was to reform the Irish and … “to reduce that countrey to civilitie and the maners of England.” It is evident, however, that no determined effort was ever made to reform the Irish, but rather that at the least pretext—generally resistance to the English—they were dismissed as a “wicked and faythles peopoll” and put to the sword. This formula was repeated in the treatment of the Indians in the New World We also find the same indictments being brought against the Indians, and later the blacks, in the New World that had been brought against the Irish. It was argued that the Indians were an unsettled people who did not make proper use of their land and thus could be justly deprived of it by the more enterprising English. Both Indians and blacks, like the Irish, were accused of being idle, lazy, dirty, and licentious, but few serious efforts were made to draw any of them from their supposed state of degeneracy. — Cedric J. Robinson, Black Marxism_ The Making of the Black…, 425

Categorization

• DEFINE: Shows how the colonial ‘civilizing mission’ justification and the denigration rhetoric transferred directly from Ireland to the New World, framing the target groups as lazy and unreformable.
• XREF: Connects to the reader’s complaint-and-immodesty and sacrifice interests: the same dehumanizing template recurs across colonial projects; also resonates with settler-colonial primitivity discourse elsewhere in their library. — connects to: British policy toward Ireland shifted from racial to national oppression after 1800 — Noel Ignatiev, How the Irish Became White, 136
• SEED: An essay angle on how colonial justification templates get exported and redeployed across geography and target populations - Ireland as the dress rehearsal for the Americas.