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Ha, what a classic example of the Streisand effect: > While there were a few mentions in the press early on, news coverage of the Derby didn’t really pick up u
by nojs 6y ago
Ha, what a classic example of the Streisand effect:
> While there were a few mentions in the press early on, news coverage of the Derby didn’t really pick up until 1932, when the Ontario government tried to have the will nullified and the money given to the University of Toronto. After a huge public outcry — the Toronto Daily Star accused the government of resorting to “communism in the raw” — the government’s claim was withdrawn. At that point, several other women seem to have realized that their family size put them in contention and started to compete as well.
- ClumsyPilot 6y ago>"“communism in the raw” that is such a strange accusation
- unnouinceput 6y agoIt's exactly the right accusation. Trying to interfere in private affairs and basically deposing private property by force is the basic definition what communism did. First thing communism did in my country in 1947 was deposing private property by force. And people who fought against that were imprisoned, killed and called "enemies of the people".
- ClumsyPilot 6y agoYou are comparing handling of 'private property' of a long dead man and his controvertial and unprecendented prank-will with gulag system - this comes across very silly to me. By labelling this as communism, you are trivialising it.