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Thread #150911 Message #3612668
Posted By: Jim Carroll
25-Mar-14 - 11:42 AM
Thread Name: BS: Irish Potato Blight- Cause found
Subject: RE: BS: Irish Potato Blight- Cause found
"Most historians."
Which choices exactly are disputed -
Closing warehouses - don't think so.
Closing warehouses - nope - definitely happened.
Laissez-faire policy - nope, down in black and white
Trevelyan's hatred of the Irish - likewise
The British Government appointing such a man to feed the people he hated - a million corpses to confirm this.
Coffin ship casualties - done and dusted
Irish left only the choice of dying or leaving Ireland - ancient history
Being racially abused both in England and America - libraries full of books on the subject.
Murderous evictions leaving thousands of families to starve on the roadside (a practice which continued to the end of the 19th century) - a legacy to prove it.
Your and your blustering mate's refusal to even acknowledge a single one of these doesn't mean they didn't happen - only that you support them having happened and would no doubt, should such circumstances recur, do so again
Rule Britannia
Yup - definitely a Dalek
Jim Carroll