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> the UK starved their own people at home in Ireland Pretty sure the Irish see the British as foreign colonialists who exported all their food, causing the gre
by rmrfstar 6y ago
> the UK starved their own people at home in Ireland
Pretty sure the Irish see the British as foreign colonialists who exported all their food, causing the great hunger.
- Boxbot 6y agopretty sure the british also saw to the irish as subhuman, which also enabled their exploitation
- disgruntledphd2 6y agoYeah, lazy, drunken, Catholic Irish. It's worth pointing out that when my Dad went to London for work in the 50's, there were signs all over the place saying, "No dogs; No blacks; No Irish"
- randompwd 6y agoEvery inch of the British establishment was involved in anti-irish propaganda inlcuding multiple cartoons depicting the Irish as less evolved/symian. for just a flavour: https://ukdiss.com/examples/analysing-the-political-cartoons.php https://ukdiss.com/examples/analysing-the-political-cartoons... https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/art-and-design/apes-psychos-alcos-how-british-cartoonists-depict-the-irish-1.3149409 https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/art-and-design/apes-psych... This kept happening up to and through the 1970s. Also worth mentioning this prick https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Cummings https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Cummings