A Response to Cynical Propaganda Disguised as Irish History from the Novara Media
Being of mostly Irish ancestry myself, having visited Ireland, and having walked through the Famine Memorial composed of six life-size victims of the Great Hunger, the tragic events in 1845-1852 Ireland have always been a subject close to my heart. All that being said, I find people today who cynically exploit the tragedy in order to push their politico-economic agenda of abolishing capitalism to give off much the same energy as those English Protestants who said that God had sent the famine to the Irish Catholics to “teach them a lesson”. In both cases, people had their conclusions, capitalism needing to be abolished by leftists and Irish Catholics being the scum of the earth by English Protestants, ahead of time, and used the tragedy beginning with the potato blight as the ad hoc “evidence” to support that after the fact. While such blatantly bigoted English Protestants seem to be largely a thing of the past, ...