As others have pointed out about the movement, it's for people who think they are smart and doing good things. It's just fitting that he is a Zionist who think he is a good person.
> He had originally offered £10,000 to the British Relief Association and some ships
laden with provisions, but had been advised by British diplomats that British
Royal protocol meant that nobody should contribute more than the Queen. It was suggested
that he gave half the sum contributed by Victoria.
That was published in 2013. Do you have a physical copy that would allow you to see footnote 64 and see where this author got the story?
(The Google book has a lot of footnote 64s at the bottom, but it's impossible to see which corresponds to which chapter or to know if the 64 we're looking for is even there at all.)
After some discussion with some friends from the former "colonizer", it just occurred to me that apparently it's very hard for people from those countries to appreciate their countries' role for a lot of massacre, genocide or any man made disaster like this kind of famine.
They always find ways to deflect their countries responsibilities with some "reasons", although they generally agree that any kind of genocide is wrong.
I think this is what we witness today too, with some massacres and genocides going on. People from those colonizer countries just can't relate to the victims.
Maybe deep down they acknowledge that those genocides are good, or at least necessary, because those things are what brings them prosperity they enjoy today.
“The British” did not genetically engineer the potato blight.
Further, in the 19th century state capacity was small and massive modern style relief programmes were not possible. Despite this, Britain managed to spend a large degree of GDP on relief. Proportionately more than it did on covid response recently, for example.
The reason people deny british culpability for “genocide” is that there was no “genocide” and britain did what it was able to do, to an unprecedented degree in fact. If anything, we should be proud of britain’s response, especially knowing that it would never get aby kind of gratitude for it.
>If anything, we should be proud of britain’s response, especially knowing that it would never get aby kind of gratitude for it.
Some examples of Britain's response:
* Establishing soup kitchens for the starving, where, to acquire food one must renounce your religion, anglicise your name, and abandon your native tongue.
* Provide maize for the starving and destitute but not for free for fear it would generate a sense of self-importance amongst the millions who are dying of hunger
* Maintaining the exportation vast amounts of food to Britain throughout the Great Hunger
* Requiring the starving who couldn't afford to buy food from the British to build pointless walls in order to earn that food
* Forcibly evicting the starving and dying from their homes because they couldn't pay their rent for some reason
* Denying aid to anyone who owned more than a quarter-acre of land, forcing starving farmers to give up their land and become destitute in order to qualify for relief
So, on behalf of all those before me in Ireland; go raibh maith agat.
The entire reason there was a famine was due to absentee landlords who demanded absolutely everything but the bare minimum from farmers for the "right" to work on "their" land.
Not relevant only for those that have lost theirs.
Nice try Zionist drone.
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