"The Irish famine was not a true famine arising from scarcity of food. It was what an English writer styled the Indian famine⎯a “financial famine,” arising not from scarcity of food but from the poverty of the people" -HG, "The Land Question"
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They call it the Emerald Isle, because of the vegetation and 1.5 million people starved to death and another 1.5 million left or they would have starved to death.
Weird people are covering for Englishmen who're long dead.
I should think that the first person enslaved in what is now the United States was a Patuxet man; the Irish were essentially never held in conditions of slavery in the United States
Genocide by starvation, Stalin’s holodomor, Gaza’s every inch of arable land destroyed on top of restricting food delivery.
When the US army marched thousands of Navajos from their lands in the long walk they also destroyed all the livestock and crops they could behind them.
Highly effective.
I have one thing I must say and that this is trollocks . I have been there, seen the stones under the hedges to mark their graves . The people still feel the injustice to their marrow of being starved to death because of the potato famine .
They could and should have been helped .
Indeed - George concluded "How could there fail to be pauperism and famine in a country where rack-rents wrested from the cultivator of the soil all the produce of his labor except just enough to maintain life in good seasons... under conditions which deprive them of hope?"
The people had food but it was shipped to England to feed the wealthier while the Irish starved. The Irish diet consisted of potatoes mostly so when they rotted in the fields there was nothing to eat because all other foods were not available to them.
There was NEVER a Famine in Ireland The potato blight in the 1840’s was seen as an opportunity by the British to kill off Irish Catholics Yes Ethnic Cleansing & Genocide. Indian Famine my Arse
Isn't it well-established that the potato crop was so small because they hadn't rotated crops, and the soil lost nutrients? Then, the British took potatoes for themselves. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mXWqNU4knMI
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Weird people are covering for Englishmen who're long dead.
Sound familiar?
When the US army marched thousands of Navajos from their lands in the long walk they also destroyed all the livestock and crops they could behind them.
Highly effective.
They could and should have been helped .