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@georgia @nerthos @rowb1t alternatively id like to join and say that claiming that the irish potato famine a genocide honestly isnt that outlandish. people at the time viewed it as being caused by the government and as being cruel. now it was largely driven by the system of heavy extraction from ireland making a failing potato crop far more devastating, but letting that continue was a real decision people made and understood themselves as making. some used it as an opportunity to force more ‘enlightened’ british ways on the irish. it was explicitly seen a way to destroy an inferior people. the fact that it was mainly driven by apathy doesn’t change that imo. you can disagree ig but i think people underplay the role of apathy in perpetuating massive evils.

i also think youre right and people overhype ireland bc theyre white

@georgia @lizzie @nerthos the reason why so many leftists talk about Ireland is because it was the literal model for European colonialism that was later exported across the globe. the entire concept of a white race was influenced by the Crown's efforts to suppress irish culture and language. and people continue to hype up ireland because even now, as a (mostly) independent "first-world" country (though tbh the RoI was an economic shithole until the '90s), Ireland continues to be the only consistently anti-colonial voice in Europe. FFS they're not even in NATO.