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Dude, poisoning people is violent. Fucking up their economy for profit is violent. What is complicated about that?

• kortilla 3y ago
  Don’t be obtuse. When people say “economic violence” they aren’t referring to poisoning. There are two things in discussion: - the “economic violence” of food relief programs because it makes it hard for local farmers. - high arsenic levels in US rice
  • mandmandam 3y ago
    Both of those things were addressed - in tfa, by OP, and by me. Both are perfectly valid uses of the word violent. Stunned that people are defending this tbh. American exceptionalism is a hell of a drug.
    • kortilla 3y ago
      It’s not exceptionalism, it’s perspective. Anyone who has been exposed to actual economic violence (severe embargoes, depression collapses, hyper inflation, etc) sees writing like this and discredits the author for being an out of touch desk warrior. >Stunned that people are defending this tbh. It’s frankly shocking that you think deriding the author for calling food programs “economic violence” is defending this scenario. Take a step back and realize that multiple things can be wrong at once.