The levels of inequality we have now don't support even an elite consensus on this issue. Why should a working professional, a doctor or a lawyer or so on, find common complaint with Howard Schultz, who's more wealthy by several orders of magnitude?
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because people wanna guillotine me too
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Indeed, the Jacobin clarified they draw the name from the Haitian revolution, not the French one, a comparatively civil affair with no genocides or anything unsavory like that.
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God forbid slaves rebel against plantation owners.
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The massacres were a good 10 years after the initial abolition of slavery and targeted a civilian population after the conclusion of a war. Textbook war crimes and ethnic cleansing.
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Fair point. But what's the moral equivalence being drawn here? Between Haitian Revolution and contemporary antifa street brawling? Between Haitian Revolution and Nordic style policy proposals?
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There is no moral equivalence, there's however a justification of wariness about toleration for political violence in the upper echelons of DSA orgs and their media allies.
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DSA is also perpetually undecided whether they want Scandinavia or a revolution, and seem to have very strange ideas about both.
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Fair points, but to circle around, there was an actual equivalence drawn between mild left policy and Jacobin terror. I just pointed out indications of less cohesion among American elites re inequality, not some weird twitter bromide like "lol guillotines"
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im not going to politically embrace people who label me The Enemy im just not
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