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[–] medgremlin@midwest.social 8 points 1 year ago (2 children)

The Irish people were growing tons of crops besides potatoes, but the British landlords took everything besides the potatoes as cash crops/taxes, leaving them only the potatoes to actually eat. There was more than enough food to prevent those deaths, but the Irish people weren't allowed to eat it.

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[–] Crampon@lemmy.world -1 points 1 year ago (1 child)

Doesn't change the fact that the paper was about the fucking organism and not about the political schemes going on at the time.

How did this forum gather so many dense brains in one place?

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[–] medgremlin@midwest.social 2 points 1 year ago

The issue is that the title of the story implies that it was entirely due to the organism that the Irish people suffered so many deaths. Context matters and they framed this in the worst way possible.

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[–] Objection@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Do you not understand that it's a joke?

Obviously we all know the paper is talking about the microorganism, but since the real cause of the famine wasn't the microorganism but the British, it's funny to act like the paper is insulting the British rather than talking about the microorganism.

That's the only way I can interpret your comment in any coherent way, that the joke just went completely over your head.

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[–] Crampon@lemmy.world -1 points 1 year ago (1 child)

I do understand it.

It's just bad. But you guys eat up any bad joke if the purpose is to blame the US, GB or Israel for anything. It's predictable and lame.

So lame.

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[–] Objection@lemmy.ml 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

The wordplay is clever. Somebody's big mad that people are blaming the British for something they did

Might want to examine why people making fun of one of the most blatantly evil empires of all time offends you.