The populations of Ireland and Scotland still haven't recovered from what happened to them.
this post was submitted on 27 May 2026
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Scotland has forgotten that we had the famine too. That and the clearences lead to thousands of Highlanders migrating to Glasgow. Today the West of Scotland has some of the most deprived areas in Europe.
Ireland understands and has confronted its generational trauma. We swept ours under the rug and the consequences are stark.
Ireland, Scotland, Wales and the north of England were getting fucked by the aristocracy long before the empire.
I just read a little bit about it. Fuck! How did this stay under the rug for so damn long!
Because the aristocracy is still in place. The house of lords should burn.
Few nations without corpses in the basement in their history. Important the current behavior, the history of other countries can't be used as valuation without hypocrisy, only if they had not learned from it.
That's a good point. The real problem is that the land and resources they stole through brazen force still remain in the hands of Western megacorps in a system of neocolonialism, and whenever any of the exploited countries try to tax or regulate that (much less reclaim their resources altogether), they get sanctioned into oblivion, if not overthrown outright.
And they still think they were civilising people. There is a reason with West is associated with hypocrites. Atleast teach your population that colonisation was wrong no matter how you look at it.
See, right off the bat I'm like "wow, I didn't know the Russians did the same thing as the British with the potato famine"
Few famines before british rule, dozens during, and none after.
Hmmm....
Must've been the climate!
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