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Thread #150911   Message #3614905
Posted By: Jim Carroll
03-Apr-14 - 10:30 AM
Thread Name: BS: Irish Potato Blight- Cause found
Subject: RE: BS: Irish Potato Blight- Cause found
None of whom deny British culpability for the outcome of the Famine due to their policy - follow the link.
They may disagree whether Britain carried out a deliberate policy of genocide - none of them, and no other historian in to my knowledge, has ever denied that it was British policy in Ireland that caused one million deaths and a half century of emigration.
Keith wants us to admit that the majority of historians have, when those you mentioned have said the opposite - Mokyr takes it further by blaming the agrarian policy fostered by Britain from the beginning of the 19th century was partly to blame for the effects of the Famine in the first place.
The rest of those names have all singled out British policy as blame for the aftermath.
Stop flinging names about - they've been argued over ad-nausem.
You want to show us where any of them have denied any of the points I have made - give us your quotes.
You want to show us how those points were not directly responsible for so many deaths and so many forced emigrations - feel free.
Keith has slithered his way from claiming that British policy played no part in the Famine to his present position of saying there is a dispute among historians as to whether it did.
He has done this having stated openly that he has never read a book on the subject and feels he doesn't need to - pretty good trick, don'cha think.
In the process he has defended a major player in spreading a racist picture of the Irish as "not being racist".
He has told us that Irish and Irish American education has turned out generations of hate-filled zombies who wrongly blame Britain for the Famine - two entire national/cultural groups in one posting - now there's economy for you.
Anyway - what the **** am I wasting my time debating how I should respond to someone whose behavior has now gone viral; it really is none of your business - particularly as you are one of our stars in demanding answers and refusing to respond to questions.
Put your case or mind your own business - simple as that
Jim Carroll