What do you know today that you didn't know yesterday?

[Rev. Rye]

Looking it up, the picture of An Gorta Mor is getting extremely complicated. I'm finding information that, even with all those exports, imports outnumbered exports 4 to 1 (and those mostly went to feeding the fucking livestock), and a lot of those exports seemed to be the only option many had to pay their rent (due largely to the Irish Poor Laws). And looking up what historians of Ireland have to say, it looks more like the actual historians seem to see it as more neglect than genocide. Quoth Kevin Kenny: "[W]hile few, if any, historians in Ireland today would endorse the idea of British genocide (in the sense of conscious intent to slaughter), this does not mean that government policies, whether adopted or rejected, had no impact on starvation, disease, mortality and emigration."

So, it looks less like an active attempt at genocide and more just plain not giving a shit about how their policies are affecting them. Which sounds a lot like many current American policies towards minorities, to be honest.