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Cranky_And_Old t1_iqrff7q wrote

Reply to comment by Gayasskat in What do people on this sub think about the Maine Communist Party by [deleted]

The Irish famine was literally caused by a Monarchy and repeated laws discriminating against the Irish, set forth by the Monarchy, not by the economic system

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Gayasskat t1_iqrfjxw wrote

What economic system was the monarchy using. Would it have made a difference if a parliament decided it instead of the monarchy

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Cranky_And_Old t1_iqrfu46 wrote

No, it wouldn’t have made a difference if Parliament had decided it, because of high anti-Irish sentiment held by the English government in general at the time. This is a false equivalence

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Gayasskat t1_iqrfy93 wrote

I think you're failing to see a bigger picture. And that's still 3 words out of everything I said

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Kiddie_Kleen t1_iqrnya2 wrote

I mean we can say the same thing about people starving under communism? It’s not actually bc of communism is bc they were having a famine nothing to do with the economic system

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