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[-] medgremlin@midwest.social 8 points 5 days ago

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.

[-] Crampon@lemmy.world -1 points 4 days ago

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?

[-] medgremlin@midwest.social 2 points 3 days 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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