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Re:What made the Irish famine so deadly by crossroadsguy on Tuesday March 11, 2025 @05:27AM (#43330698)
A somewhat related side-note (might be interesting): William Dalrymple recently talked about - "How in India the Irish Transformed from Colonised to Colonisers" - https://nitter.net/DalrympleWill/status/1898036558898585768 - and not quite/always the benevolent/sympathetic ones.

Besides we still call these events "famines"? Interesting. I thought genocide would be the word, isn't it?

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Re:What made the Irish famine so deadly by Kudos on Tuesday March 11, 2025 @05:59AM (#43330864)
> "How in India the Irish Transformed from Colonised to Colonisers"

The Irish people mentioned appear to actually be part of the plantation class of British people who arrived into Ulster. I don't think the framing should be taken sincerely.

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