I’m getting flashbacks to that interview with I think Owen Jones(?) after Theresa May had to fuck off, and the other reporters are whining at him “where’s your humanity” while he’s literally expressing sympathy for all the people she hurt. But he did it wrong because it was for the wrong people, you see?
I can also tie this to an observation I’ve had about the way people hand-wring about the Romanovs being killed by the Bolsheviks. Tons of people died throughout that conflict, many of them quite young like the precious Romanov family’s kids, but those many were just peasants. The real tragedy is not in all the dead and nameless nobodies, but these fucking main characters getting killed.
It’s a moment of distilled class warfare, and everyone’s reaction makes it so stark which side they’re on.
Yeah, the Romanov children always irked me for that reason. Was it uncool to kill children? Yes. Nobody should be killed because their shitty dad did something shitty. Puyi is the proof that people can be rehabilitated.
But to try to drag the Bolsheviks or socialism at large because the Romanov children got killed while ignoring everything the white terror did, or the decades and centuries of oppression, pogroms, legions of peasants dying so lines on a map could shift around… it’s an incomplete moral outrage at best. At worst it’s as you say, people being upset because the main characters got killed.
I’m getting flashbacks to that interview with I think Owen Jones(?) after Theresa May had to fuck off, and the other reporters are whining at him “where’s your humanity” while he’s literally expressing sympathy for all the people she hurt. But he did it wrong because it was for the wrong people, you see?
I can also tie this to an observation I’ve had about the way people hand-wring about the Romanovs being killed by the Bolsheviks. Tons of people died throughout that conflict, many of them quite young like the precious Romanov family’s kids, but those many were just peasants. The real tragedy is not in all the dead and nameless nobodies, but these fucking main characters getting killed.
It’s a moment of distilled class warfare, and everyone’s reaction makes it so stark which side they’re on.
Yeah, the Romanov children always irked me for that reason. Was it uncool to kill children? Yes. Nobody should be killed because their shitty dad did something shitty. Puyi is the proof that people can be rehabilitated.
But to try to drag the Bolsheviks or socialism at large because the Romanov children got killed while ignoring everything the white terror did, or the decades and centuries of oppression, pogroms, legions of peasants dying so lines on a map could shift around… it’s an incomplete moral outrage at best. At worst it’s as you say, people being upset because the main characters got killed.