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Irish Potato Famine leads to the death of a Million people.
Posted on 1/11/15 at 8:35 pm
Posted on 1/11/15 at 8:35 pm
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During the famine approximately 1 million people died and a million more emigrated from Ireland
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Although the potato crop failed, the country itself was still producing and exporting large quantities of food. Ireland exported approximately thirty to fifty shiploads per day to Britain, which was more than enough to feed the population.[7] The food exports in conjunction with draconian laws have led some historians and authors to use the term genocide in relation to the tragedy.[8]
This crash course video does a good job discussing it LINK at 3:30 mark.
Other drought and famine historical link
So the question becomes why did the Christian English terrorize the Irish starving a million men, women, and children to death?
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Posted on 1/11/15 at 8:40 pm to BlackPawnMartyr
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So the question becomes why did the Christian English terrorize the Irish starving a million men, women, and children to death?
Oh, so that was a "Christian" jihad? I've always suspected
fricking idiot Posted on 1/11/15 at 8:41 pm to BlackPawnMartyr
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why did the Christian English
mark 12:17
And Jesus answering said unto them, Render to Caesar the things that are Caesar's, and to God the things that are God's. And they marvelled at him.
Posted on 1/11/15 at 8:43 pm to Vols&Shaft83
Killed a million innocent people. #religionofpeace 
Posted on 1/11/15 at 8:44 pm to BlackPawnMartyr
There is actually a whole story here that is pretty damning toward the English. They hated the Irish and were very happy to see them die out or serve as slaves on sugar plantations.
More Irish were sold into slavery in the New World in the 1600s than Africans. They were considered to be worth less.
The English hated the Irish and it has been a strong theory for a long time that the English were behind the potato famine in some regard.
As for the Christianity of the English at that time, it was not stellar.
More Irish were sold into slavery in the New World in the 1600s than Africans. They were considered to be worth less.
The English hated the Irish and it has been a strong theory for a long time that the English were behind the potato famine in some regard.
As for the Christianity of the English at that time, it was not stellar.
Posted on 1/11/15 at 8:46 pm to BlackPawnMartyr
You're an idiot.
Posted on 1/11/15 at 8:49 pm to AlaTiger
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There is actually a whole story here that is pretty damning toward the English
They were pretty brutal in a lot of their imperialism of the new Americas, African, and Asian empires. I will be rolling out a few more threads that will get into this as the week progresses. It will help put a lot of things into greater perspective.
Posted on 1/11/15 at 9:06 pm to BlackPawnMartyr
The British viewed the Irish as only barely "better" than the "savages" in Africa and India. frick those inbred monarchy worshipping cocksuckers.
Posted on 1/11/15 at 9:12 pm to BlackPawnMartyr
Today I learned Alabama internet is so slow we're getting 150+ year old breaking news.
Posted on 1/11/15 at 9:15 pm to KSGamecock
Today i learned that Houston, Tx is in Alabama. Nice graphic though and i still give the jokes effort an A.
Posted on 1/11/15 at 9:43 pm to BlackPawnMartyr
Thanks for starting a thread about atrocities on my people so you could prove a message board political point that Christians are bad too or something
Posted on 1/11/15 at 9:55 pm to genro
No problem come back for each new thread daily discuss these issues in a more global sense. This is christian on christian to start but will progress to every inhabital region of the world as a historical look at mass atrocities is revealed. :beer:
Posted on 1/11/15 at 9:58 pm to BlackPawnMartyr
Will you be posting the atheist atrocities?
Posted on 1/11/15 at 10:17 pm to genro
If one is better than another then there wouldnt be so many mass atrocities. But such is propaganda.
Posted on 1/11/15 at 10:20 pm to BlackPawnMartyr
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BlackPawnMartyr
Sheesh ... just sheesh.
That's just pathetic.
BTW, you do realize, do you not, that it was Church of England vs Catholics ... not English vs Irish.
Nevermind.
Posted on 1/11/15 at 10:23 pm to BlackPawnMartyr
Ok. So yes? Or..
ETA: just seeing if you have an agenda
ETA: just seeing if you have an agenda
This post was edited on 1/11/15 at 10:24 pm
Posted on 1/11/15 at 10:24 pm to BlackPawnMartyr
So are you trying to make the argument that we should set foreign policy based off events in the 1800s?
Guess it's down with the evil Spanish empire then!
Guess it's down with the evil Spanish empire then!
Posted on 1/12/15 at 9:23 am to BlackPawnMartyr
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There is actually a whole story here that is pretty damning toward the English
They were pretty brutal in a lot of their imperialism of the new Americas, African, and Asian empires. I will be rolling out a few more threads that will get into this as the week progresses. It will help put a lot of things into greater perspective.
Yes. And, if yo want the real story behind what led to brutal, race-based slavery in North America, you have to understand the psyche of the English toward anyone who was NOT English in the 1600s. It did not start as just hatred from "white" people toward "black" people. No one thought that way at the time. It was English superiority against anyone not English. What they did to the Irish was brutal.
So, "black" skin becomes a convenient short-hand for the English for inferiority in the New World when it came to developing a permanent servant class who would be beneath them. In other words, it worked.
If you want to understand racial division in America, start with the English in the 1500s and 1600s and then work from there. It is an enlightening study.
Posted on 1/12/15 at 3:27 pm to AlaTiger
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So, "black" skin becomes a convenient short-hand for the English for inferiority in the New World when it came to developing a permanent servant class who would be beneath them. In other words, it worked.
... oh, but the European white man played no hand in freeing slaves or writing laws declaring all men are created equal - and then enforcing said laws?
Slaves were convenient, cheap, durable, labor able to handle the brutal Southern summers. Skin color was not the issue. It became an issue after integrating the races and the Africans, naturally, exercising some of their more savage rituals in front of whites.
So the bottom line is that, at that particular time in world history, it was more a clashing of cultures than a clashing of races. Races just happened to be the marker between the clash of the two cultures.
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