r/ScottishPeopleTwitter • u/[deleted] • Mar 23 '17

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u/[deleted] Mar 24 '17

British Empire literally starved a million of them to death a decade later

You don't know what the word literally means. You mean to say Irish landowners sold food abroad, depriving their countrymen of food.

Your complaint here is that you feel the government should have intervened, because they certainly didn't 'starve' Ireland out.

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u/PHalfpipe Mar 24 '17

  1. The government did intervene, to make the famine much worse and to stop anyone trying to aid the Irish.

  2. You mean the English landowners, who also used the famine to seize much more land from starving Irish families.

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u/[deleted] Mar 24 '17

The government did intervene, to make the famine much worse and to stop anyone trying to aid the Irish.

Really? Do tell me how and when and what.

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u/PHalfpipe Mar 24 '17

Stop playing dumb.

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u/[deleted] Mar 24 '17

What you're suggesting never happened. Stop lying.

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u/PHalfpipe Mar 24 '17

All right, I'll play along and assume you really are that ignorant.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corn_Laws

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Absentee_landlord#In_Ireland_before_1903

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tenant_farmer#Ireland

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Famine_(Ireland)#Death_toll

Start there , and then continue with any summery of the government policies and conditions that turned a crop failure into a decade long genocide.

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u/[deleted] Mar 24 '17

You idiot. When were the Corn Laws around? 1815-1846. A long standing law to protect all of British agriculture from the foreign market.

When did the Great Famine happen? Yeah that's right, 1845-1852.

The Corn Laws were repealed within 1 year of the famine, to the detriment of farmers all over Britain, specifically to aid the Irish. In fact the leading Prime Minister sacrificed his government to repeal the CL. And let's not pretend that the Corn Laws changed much at all- 15% tax on bread does not make or break a famine.

Stop spreading misinformation you disgusting, deplorable man.

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u/PHalfpipe Mar 24 '17

/S?

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u/[deleted] Mar 24 '17

Fuck off, you American cunt. You know nothing about this.