The comment section of the top post on my Lemmy front page is currently advocating for a class war, with some highly upvoted comments implicitly and directly calling for the killing or robbing of wealthy people simply because they're wealthy. If someone supports this rhetoric but opposes similar rhetoric from the far-right, then they're being hypocritical.
At what point does someone fall into that category? Like, what's the annual income or net worth of someone that they feel deserves it? Does making $10k less than that cut off save someone? Or is it simply a moving bar, of anyone who is better off than they are?
"Sure, an authoritarian organization wants to kill its ideological opponents, including us, but if we attack them we'll be hypocrites so I think we should just let them murder us instead... to avoid hypocrisy."
The comment section of the top post on my Lemmy front page is currently advocating for a class war, with some highly upvoted comments implicitly and directly calling for the killing or robbing of wealthy people simply because they're wealthy. If someone supports this rhetoric but opposes similar rhetoric from the far-right, then they're being hypocritical.
At what point does someone fall into that category? Like, what's the annual income or net worth of someone that they feel deserves it? Does making $10k less than that cut off save someone? Or is it simply a moving bar, of anyone who is better off than they are?
"Sure, an authoritarian organization wants to kill its ideological opponents, including us, but if we attack them we'll be hypocrites so I think we should just let them murder us instead... to avoid hypocrisy."