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Offline Sandafluffoid

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Ethnically cleansing the rich
« on: March 18, 2012, 09:36:38 am »
source (In French, I couldn't find anything in English on it)

Recently a member of France's ruling UMP party compared the Socialist Party presidential candidate François Hollande to Adolf Hitler. He claimed that Hollande (my own translation) "has rendered himself guilty of supporting the hatred of a population, that of the rich.... this hatred of the rich having been already developed by Adolf Hitler in the case of the Jews".

He also went on to accuse Hollande of "preaching the ethnic cleansing of the rich", because naturally the taxing of the wealthy who choose to live abroad to avoid paying tax on their assets in France is tantamount to the slaughter of millions in brutal conditions.

I suspect that this is only going to make Jacques Béhagues (the original accuser) look like an idiot, but is also nicely symptomatic of the radicalisation of the right across the western world, not just America. The real question is, how long until the Republicans catch up on the idea of calling taxing the rich 'ethnic-cleansing'?
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Re: Ethnically cleansing the rich
« Reply #1 on: March 18, 2012, 09:52:18 am »
Talk about Epic Godwin. :P
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Re: Ethnically cleansing the rich
« Reply #2 on: March 18, 2012, 10:07:54 am »
Wouldn't it be rather hard to engage in ethnic cleansing of the rich, considering that being wealthy isn't an ethnicity?

I also love the blatant Antisemitism. Jews are good with money!
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Re: Ethnically cleansing the rich
« Reply #3 on: March 18, 2012, 12:49:45 pm »
Seriously. The irony here is killing me.
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Re: Ethnically cleansing the rich
« Reply #4 on: March 18, 2012, 02:57:54 pm »
Well, my dad already thinks that the establishment of the Federal Reserve was "a hate crime against the lower and middle classes."
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Re: Ethnically cleansing the rich
« Reply #5 on: March 18, 2012, 05:52:18 pm »
Your dad needs to stop listening to Ron Paul.
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Re: Ethnically cleansing the rich
« Reply #6 on: March 18, 2012, 07:01:26 pm »
Of course, "let's fuck over the poor and middle class by keeping inflation down". Makes perfect sense.
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Re: Ethnically cleansing the rich
« Reply #7 on: March 18, 2012, 07:49:17 pm »
It's not wrong, just a little strange.
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Re: Ethnically cleansing the rich
« Reply #8 on: March 18, 2012, 09:07:16 pm »
I scanned the article and he goes on to compare it to concentration camps for Roma.

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Re: Ethnically cleansing the rich
« Reply #9 on: March 18, 2012, 09:41:52 pm »
I was a boy when six-million European Jews were herded into death camps.  Why they were called peasants I'll never know.
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Re: Ethnically cleansing the rich
« Reply #10 on: March 18, 2012, 09:56:39 pm »
Well, what I want to know is, if such is going on, where's the guillotines? Seriously, if they're beheading the rich and powerful in the streets, then it's happening. I don't see any outside of the museum, so he may want to rethink that.
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Re: Ethnically cleansing the rich
« Reply #11 on: March 19, 2012, 02:09:28 am »
Quote from: Wykked Wytch on March 18, 2012, 09:07:16 pm
I scanned the article and he goes on to compare it to concentration camps for Roma.

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Lol, considering what Sarkozy did to the Roma.
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Re: Ethnically cleansing the rich
« Reply #12 on: March 19, 2012, 05:51:43 am »
Quote from: largeham on March 19, 2012, 02:09:28 am
Quote from: Wykked Wytch on March 18, 2012, 09:07:16 pm
I scanned the article and he goes on to compare it to concentration camps for Roma.

Ethnic awareness

Yer doin' it wrong

Lol, considering what Sarkozy did to the Roma.
Well, in the article they are actually talking about a point that Hollande genuinely made, but it just relies on the assumption that halfway through his answer 'camp' stopped referring to temporary illegal settlements created by the Roma and started meaning concentration camps.
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Re: Ethnically cleansing the rich
« Reply #13 on: March 19, 2012, 03:12:18 pm »
Lewisa black already covered this thus proving Lewis black is psychic

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Re: Ethnically cleansing the rich
« Reply #14 on: March 20, 2012, 06:53:49 am »
He has a point in that wealth, like ethnicity, is largely inherited.  And of course, it's impossible to tax wealthy people without killing them.
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