I don’t understand how “death” and “kill” have started being so context dependent.
When we see people protesting in parts of the world chanting “death to the west” on tv, does the average person watching it understand it’s a figure of speech which is implicitly calling for social justice or whatever?
Social media posts too like “kill fascists/nazis”, I am terminally online enough to read it as a figure of speech but it’s pretty clunky.
FWIW Israel are committing war crimes in Gaza and protesting at Glastonbury where there are lots of eyeballs watching makes sense. I just find the rhetoric a bit clumsy if you are chanting words that sound catchy but don’t mean to use them in their normative sense.
I don’t understand how “death” and “kill” have started being so context dependent.
When we see people protesting in parts of the world chanting “death to the west” on tv, does the average person watching it understand it’s a figure of speech which is implicitly calling for social justice or whatever?
Social media posts too like “kill fascists/nazis”, I am terminally online enough to read it as a figure of speech but it’s pretty clunky.
FWIW Israel are committing war crimes in Gaza and protesting at Glastonbury where there are lots of eyeballs watching makes sense. I just find the rhetoric a bit clumsy if you are chanting words that sound catchy but don’t mean to use them in their normative sense.
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