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minus-squaresuperkret@feddit.orglinkfedilinkarrow-up1·2 months agoThe potato joke is also a joke about a genocide.
minus-squareI'm back on my BS 🤪@lemmy.autism.placelinkfedilinkarrow-up0·2 months agoOh, then what’s the problem?
minus-squaresuperkret@feddit.orglinkfedilinkarrow-up0·edit-22 months agoThe 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.
minus-squarevind@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up0·2 months agoOh it’s still in living memory, Ireland and Irish culture still hasn’t recovered from it.
minus-squareotter@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·2 months agoCan’t hold a potato if both hands are full of grudges, though. 🤷🏼♂️
minus-squareIlovethebomb@lemm.eelinkfedilinkarrow-up0·2 months agoWasn’t the potato famine a natural disaster though?
minus-squaresuperkret@feddit.orglinkfedilinkarrow-up0·2 months agoThe potato blight was a natural disaster. The famine was caused by the British exporting the same amount of potatoes out of Ireland as before.
minus-squareotter@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·2 months agoAlso, monoculture, but yeah. Points at Cavendish bananas.
minus-squarevind@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up0·2 months agoThey didn’t export potatoes out of Ireland, they exported everything else. Meaning there was no other food but potatoes for the Irish to eat.
The potato joke is also a joke about a genocide.
Oh, then what’s the problem?
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.
Oh it’s still in living memory, Ireland and Irish culture still hasn’t recovered from it.
Can’t hold a potato if both hands are full of grudges, though. 🤷🏼♂️
Wasn’t the potato famine a natural disaster though?
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.
Also, monoculture, but yeah. Points at Cavendish bananas.
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.