• LibertyLizard@slrpnk.net
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    2 days ago

    Is eat the rich generally a call for violence? I actually don’t really know what people mean when they say this.

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      1 day ago

      French revolution, Jean-Jacques Rousseau supposedly said “When the poor have nothing to eat, they will eat the rich.”

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      it is a slogan calling for an eradication of the extremely influential and powerful, to redistribute their wealth and return it to those whom it was stolen from.

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      I’ve always viewed it as a call to repurpose the resources currently hoarded by the rich.

      I think Reddit is just pretending to interpret it as incitement to cannibalism.

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          For now. Internationally, that phrase has been around for much longer than that, and I think it will be around for a lot longer.

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      It has always been a threat / call to violence and anyone saying otherwise is trying to justify it / soften the meaning.

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        Why would I say otherwise to justify? And regarding the softening, that’s no problem some meat tenderizer won’t solve, It’s not that you have to be rich, you know. Handing over the loot is not too much to ask, seriously. If you can’t find the irony in there, you might want to watch the same titled movie from the 1980s. I doubt you’ll like it.

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      If we let the rich continue as they have been doing, then we’ll be forced to either all starve to death or sustain ourselves on the only meat available.