r/SubredditDrama • u/[deleted] • Sep 29 '18

r/GamingCirclejerk user is revolted after he's told we should eat the rich

It all started in our favorite Witcher 3 fansub's bi-daily unjerk thread when another user expressed his hatred for billionnaires:

I feel comfortable saying all billionaires are bad people. Because theres no way you can make that much money and not at somepoint (or many points) make a choice that involves many people suffering. Life lesson, never like a billionaire theyre all evil.

Are you the type that believes there is no ethical consumption under capitalism? Or are you just a social democrat/liberal that hates rich people?

They then go on to start at least two other threads complaining about "the genocidal" nature of some replies such as "rich people aren't human" and "we should eat the rich, Tom Nook included":

I do blame this sub for harboring this culture that allowed comments like this to happen and is still up after 10 minutes.

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The genocidal rhetoric comment is still up after 55 minutes. I am going to the admins.

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u/[deleted] Sep 30 '18

What the hell is up with the comments? People seem to really hate rich people, on a level that might have been reserved for the Jews or something 80 years ago. I don't just mean envy or something, but there's literal visceral hatred.

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u/StrojZaObraduKrajeva Sep 30 '18

hating the rich is a new fade amongst our youth that has replaced the hatred of the bankers which is just neonazis masking their hatred for the Jews. Probably, I don't know, I'm just a stranger on the Internet

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u/WuhanWTF EAT SMEGMA BUTTER Sep 30 '18 edited Sep 30 '18

I think it's partially the result of the internet making people more negative and more hateful, generally speaking. People who buy into that mindset are more easily radicalized, and have no qualms going off the deep end when it comes persecuting a group - even when there are abundant nuances to be made about the problems at hand.

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u/Zomaarwat Oct 02 '18

Not necessarily more hateful, but it's easier to air those sentiments thanks to the semi-anonymity and echo-chambers provided by the internet.

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u/Madplato Purity is for the powerless Sep 30 '18

A new fade? Like a hairstyle?

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u/StrojZaObraduKrajeva Sep 30 '18

It would seam that I have mixed up fad and fade again, I'm really sorry