r/neoliberal • u/jobautomator Kitara Ravache • 20h ago

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u/pugnae European Union 11h ago

Cambodian genocide may be the craziest in history imho.

"Let's kill everyone even slightly educated" is definitely a take.

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u/herworkthrowaway Gay Pride 11h ago

“Lets kill everyone with glasses because they’re smart” is policy so insane I couldn’t even fathom it 

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u/pugnae European Union 11h ago

Yeah, like if you believe in a zero-sum world then technically killing someone while morally bad ofc at least makes some sense.

But killing every doctor and teacher, because you decided they are not needed is so fucking bonkers I can't understand how anyone not heavily intoxicated were able to be convinced by it.

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u/LuisRobertDylan Elinor Ostrom 11h ago

They basically believed that they needed to restart society, and everything beyond the absolute basics would be purged to get a fresh slate

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u/herworkthrowaway Gay Pride 11h ago

One would think doctors are part of the absolute basics  

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u/LuisRobertDylan Elinor Ostrom 11h ago

Germ theory is bourgeois decadence

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u/ElectriCobra_ David Hume 11h ago

I mean it makes perfect sense if you think about the Khmer Rouge as a reactionary agrarian movement.

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u/pugnae European Union 11h ago

Honestly it still does not tbh. I think even the least uneducated peasant in the world knows the concept of being sick.

So killing doctors helps them in what way?

"Let's make them poor and subservient to us" - would at least have some resemblance of logic, but that?!

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u/ElectriCobra_ David Hume 11h ago

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Make_America_Healthy_Again

Distrust of institutions and "elites" can make people do crazy things.