A Lesson From Britain?

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/02/11/opinion/britain-irish-potato-famine.html

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To the Editor:

Re “How Nations Recover,” by David Brooks (column, Feb. 6):

While there are lessons to be learned from Britain’s ability to revive itself, one should never forget that the racism against Irish Catholics was so pervasive during the Irish potato famine from 1845 to 1852 that more than a million Irish died and a million more were forced to emigrate because of the unwillingness of the British to see them as human beings.

So even the most enlightened and politically adroit of political systems can still be guilty of the most unconscionable acts of inhumanity, and maybe that is the real lesson we can learn from this history.

MICHAEL SCOTT, SAN FRANCISCO