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But how do we really know that the Highland Clearances really happened? I mean were any of you actually there? I don't think so. So perhaps Grits ill informed ramblings are... you know... as valid as anyone else's "opinions".

I may not have been alive for the Highland Clearances but on journeys through the highlands the evidence of dwellings, crofts and villages cleared through this legislation social policy are seen all over the place. One or two dwellings scattered and abandoned could be argued as the consequence of all sorts of things - death from disease or poverty, sold by a landlord, building falling into disrepair - but not so many, and not villages.

The Highland Clearances can also be evidenced by the large jump in census figures for the two censuses (censi? censae?) either side of the clearance date. Most notable in Glasgow and to a lesser extent Edinburgh.

ETA: Edited to change 'legislation' for social policy. Clearances were more complex than a single piece of legislation.
 
Seriously? You know who he is, right? He's a journalist and not a very well respected one.


Thank you for illustrating my point so beautifully :D

You think he is not well respected/ you dont respect him, yet the man writes for the new yorker and has won the Pulitzer Prize 3 times.
 
Thank you for illustrating my point so beautifully :D

You think he is not well respected/ you dont respect him, yet the man writes for the new yorker and has won the Pulitzer Prize 3 times.
You like Thomas Friedman? He's an appalling apologist for the US invasion of Iraq.

Syria Is Iraq By Thomas Friedman. July 24, 2012

He writes for the New York Times not the New Yorker.
 
You like Thomas Friedman? He's an appalling apologist for the US invasion of Iraq.

Syria Is Iraq By Thomas Friedman. July 24, 2012

He writes for the New York Times not the New Yorker.

Yeah, but he's won 3 Pulitzers, so you're supposed to forget that people like Friedman and Podhoretz basically shill for any part of the rightwing establishment that come calling.
 
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