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• positiveWHAT@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  OK, so there’s something called “context”, which in this case is the person being questioned being Irish.
  All Europeans eats potatoes so singling out the Irish in this way means you are referencing the famine.

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  • crashfrog@sopuli.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    There’s literally a dish called “Irish potatoes.”

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    • positiveWHAT@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Lol, oh you little trolls

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• gwen@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  the joke was in reference to the irish potato famine which was caused by the uk subsidising the export of food in ireland so potatoes were literally the only thing they were able to eat because the british would force them to hand over everything else

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  • crashfrog@sopuli.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    How does the joke reference that?

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    • psud@aussie.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      By using the concepts “potato” and “Irish”

      The only reason those concepts are linked is because potato was the emergency food during the period during which England was trying to kill all Irish people

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      • crashfrog@sopuli.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        That’s an insane misapprehension of the potato famine

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• pupbiru@aussie.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  is every use of the word “yellow” racist? no but context matters

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  • crashfrog@sopuli.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Sure; an important part of this context is that the Irish bombed more hospitals than the Israelis have

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