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[โ€“] Crampon@lemmy.world -1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Doesn't change the fact that the paper was about the fucking organism and not about the political schemes going on at the time.

How did this forum gather so many dense brains in one place?

The issue is that the title of the story implies that it was entirely due to the organism that the Irish people suffered so many deaths. Context matters and they framed this in the worst way possible.