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[โ€“] Saleh@feddit.org 0 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Tariffs: never any externalities or unintended consequences; you will certainly not regret imposing tariffs.

That implies that Britain didn't intend those consequences. But Britain has mastered using starvation as a weapon of genocide, in particular by masking it as an "unfortunate" result of taxes and tariffs.

Britain genocided more than ten million people in todays India about a century earlier and then again about three million in todays Bangladesh during World War II.

Britain murdered the Irish very much deliberately.

[โ€“] T156@lemmy.world 0 points 1 day ago

That implies that Britain didn't intend those consequences. But Britain has mastered using starvation as a weapon of genocide, in particular by masking it as an "unfortunate" result of taxes and tariffs.

We do know that the British did try and get the Irish to renounce their heritage to receive aid during the famine as well. Some families had to renounce their Irish name and Catholicism before they would be given food during the famine.