• @[email protected]
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    3013 hours 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.

    • @vind
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      2612 hours ago

      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.

      • @[email protected]
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        812 hours ago

        That, the rent system, and the British actively preventing aid (not at their expense!) really turned a bad situation into a full-blown genocide.