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        The Irish genocide is far enough in the past to have become sort of “folklore”.
        No one who experienced it is still alive or in living memory.
        That makes it better suited for small talk, and not equivalent to the Israeli genocide.

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          2 months ago

          Oh it’s still in living memory, Ireland and Irish culture still hasn’t recovered from it.

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        2 months ago

        The potato blight was a natural disaster.
        The famine was caused by the British exporting the same amount of potatoes out of Ireland as before.

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          They didn’t export potatoes out of Ireland, they exported everything else. Meaning there was no other food but potatoes for the Irish to eat.