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English town says deeply shameful tradition is worth saving actually (youtu.be)
submitted 3 years ago by to c/genzedong@lemmygrad.ml
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You don't need to watch the video. Tom Scott/None of the interview subjects ever point out how fucked this is, but basically the story is rich sadists would put coins in boiling water and then throw them at poor children to watch them endure injury for small amounts of money as a form of entertainment.

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[–] 0 points 3 years ago (1 child)

Yes. Of all the british 'cultural traditions' for people to be mad about...

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  • [–] 0 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    Yeah it's really weird. The British were inventors of a vicious form of financial capital that is holding the whole world hostage. A cultural tradition of short-term predatory lending and "indirect rule" that controls colonized populations through false rulers.

    And we focus on... a local town somewhere just acknowledging their history and holding a community event that has been done for the last 700years.

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