🍹Early to RISA 🧉@sh.itjust.worksM to Greentext@sh.itjust.works · 3 months agoAnon goes to dinner with coworkerssh.itjust.worksexternal-linkmessage-square96fedilinkarrow-up123arrow-down10
arrow-up123arrow-down1external-linkAnon goes to dinner with coworkerssh.itjust.works🍹Early to RISA 🧉@sh.itjust.worksM to Greentext@sh.itjust.works · 3 months agomessage-square96fedilink
minus-squaresuperkret@feddit.orglinkfedilinkarrow-up1·3 months agoThe potato blight was a natural disaster. The famine was caused by the British exporting the same amount of potatoes out of Ireland as before.
minus-squarevind@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·3 months agoThey didn’t export potatoes out of Ireland, they exported everything else. Meaning there was no other food but potatoes for the Irish to eat.
minus-squareLetstakealook@lemm.eelinkfedilinkarrow-up1·3 months agoThat, the rent system, and the British actively preventing aid (not at their expense!) really turned a bad situation into a full-blown genocide.
The potato blight was a natural disaster.
The famine was caused by the British exporting the same amount of potatoes out of Ireland as before.
They didn’t export potatoes out of Ireland, they exported everything else. Meaning there was no other food but potatoes for the Irish to eat.
That, the rent system, and the British actively preventing aid (not at their expense!) really turned a bad situation into a full-blown genocide.
Ahh, I see.