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THE EMO HOLOCAUST! Meet the EMO WHO MURDERED MILLIONS!
Let's talk about the symptoms of emo: Depression, self-cutting, endless poetry, effeminacy, drugs, and alter egos.
Here is a perfect description of a typical EMO:
Depression: check
Self-cutting: check.
Drugs: check
Effeminate chosen name: check
This typical emo is Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl of Lytton:
Read the book Late Victorian Holocausts to read about how this emo held history's largest and most expensive feast, while reining over one of history's worst famines:
George Monbiot sums up the emocaust:
So the next time someone tells you that emo is just a harmless subculture, tell them that millions of murdered Indians, British soldiers, and Afgans disagree.
Here is a perfect description of a typical EMO:
A writer, seemingly admired only by Victoria, who wrote "vast, stale poems" and ponderous novels under the nom de plume of Owen Meredith, he had been accused of plagiarism by both Swinburne and his own father, Bulwer-Lytton (author of The Last Days of Pompeii). Moreover, it was widely suspected that the new viceroy's judgement was addled by opium and incipient insanity. Since a nervous breakdown in 1868, Lytton had repeatedly exhibited wild swings between megalomania and self-lacerating despair.
Poetry: check.Depression: check
Self-cutting: check.
Drugs: check
Effeminate chosen name: check
This typical emo is Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl of Lytton:
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"The Viceroy seemed to have made the tales of Arabian fiction true ... nothing was too rich, nothing too costly." "Lytton put on a spectacle," adds a biographer of Lord Salisbury (the secretary of state for India), "which achieved the two criteria Salisbury had set him six months earlier, of being `gaudy enough to impress the orientals' ... and furthermore a pageant which hid `the nakedness of the sword on which we really rely.'" Its "climacteric ceremonial" included a week-long feast for 68,000 officials, satraps and maharajas: the most colossal and expensive meal in world history. An English journalist later estimated that 100,000 of the Queen-Empress's subjects starved to death in Madras and Mysore in the course of Lytton's spectacular durbar. Indians in future generations justifiably would remember him as their Nero...
Grain merchants, in fact, preferred to export a record 6.4 million cwt. of wheat to Europe in 1877-78 rather than relieve starvation in India...
Lytton, who justified his stringencies to the Legislative Council in 1877 by arguing that the Indian population "has a tendency to increase more rapidly than the food it raises from the soil,".
So, according to his emo logic, people who raise large families deserve to die. Typically emo (have you ever seen an emo raising a large family?)Grain merchants, in fact, preferred to export a record 6.4 million cwt. of wheat to Europe in 1877-78 rather than relieve starvation in India...
Lytton, who justified his stringencies to the Legislative Council in 1877 by arguing that the Indian population "has a tendency to increase more rapidly than the food it raises from the soil,".
George Monbiot sums up the emocaust:
In his book Late Victorian Holocausts, published in 2001, Mike Davis tells the story of famines that killed between 12 and 29 million Indians. These people were, he demonstrates, murdered by British state policy. When an El Niño drought destituted the farmers of the Deccan plateau in 1876 there was a net surplus of rice and wheat in India. But the viceroy, Lord Lytton, insisted that nothing should prevent its export to England. In 1877 and 1878, at the height of the famine, grain merchants exported a record 6.4m hundredweight of wheat. As the peasants began to starve, officials were ordered "to discourage relief works in every possible way". The Anti-Charitable Contributions Act of 1877 prohibited "at the pain of imprisonment private relief donations that potentially interfered with the market fixing of grain prices". The only relief permitted in most districts was hard labour, from which anyone in an advanced state of starvation was turned away. In the labour camps, the workers were given less food than inmates of Buchenwald. In 1877, monthly mortality in the camps equated to an annual death rate of 94%.
As millions died, the imperial government launched "a militarised campaign to collect the tax arrears accumulated during the drought". The money, which ruined those who might otherwise have survived the famine, was used by Lytton to fund his war in Afghanistan. Even in places that had produced a crop surplus, the government's export policies, like Stalin's in Ukraine, manufactured hunger...
Emo may start with silly haircuts, scarred wrists, endless poems, drugs, and bad music, but it leads to pointless warfare and man-made mass-starvation.So the next time someone tells you that emo is just a harmless subculture, tell them that millions of murdered Indians, British soldiers, and Afgans disagree.
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