• crashfrog
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    2 years ago

    How does the joke reference that?

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      2 years 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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        2 years ago

        That’s an insane misapprehension of the potato famine

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          2 years ago

          You, who needed an explanation on how a joke about Irish and potatoes was offensive, are an expert on the famine?

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            2 years ago

            I don’t think you have to be an expert to know that the Irish Potato Famine wasn’t a situation where potato’s were all there were to eat. I think you just have to be someone who didn’t fail out in the 5th grade.