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.
I don’t really see a problem with this to be honest.
Just a quirky local tradition.
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.
The barbaric traditions of western tyrannical monarchies
I was thinking about this video for some time now. Wonderful, old, quaint custom my ass. I’m sure all those collected pennies add up to a decent sum of money, couldn’t that be used for idk at least feeding the homeless or smth? Also what’s that mayor even wearing? The brits really went ahead and saved every deeply shameful tradition they ever had.
not every tradition need have a nice origin for it to be ingrained into the community.
this particular tradition is not still nobles trying to hurt poor people for their amusement, it’s the townspeople throwing their pocketchange at each other in a vague remembrance, so long as they’re having fun with it and wish to continue i don’t think it’s very problematic.
i don’t think it’d take very long at all for us to single out something you like & engage in with problematic origins. everyone’s all for complete cultural revolution until someone correctly associates something useful, harmless, or personally fond of with the bourgeois/feudal culture.
a lot can and should be critically examined, reinterpreted, and rejected, but this is a democratic process. the greatest argument for hot pennies is the voluntary perpetuation and participation in the event.
Lol we got people ITT defending this because “muh tradition” “let people hsve fun”
“Let people have fun” and its consequences have been a disaster for the human race
