I’m sorry to bug everybody but I have to alleviate my BP that always goes through the roof when I encounter any kind of xenophobia, so I’ll blog until I feel better.

From the same source that inspired my previous post (I checked and this weird Twitterer is called Overt Dictionary): “Unemployment: an act which will eventually result in starvation, because raw physical hunger is used to discipline the deviant individual.”

Way to go beating down on the unemployed, Overt Dictionary. Just in case they don’t feel bad enough as it is, here you are to make their predicament sound even worse.

Who comes up with these ridiculous definitions, I wonder?

7 responses to “From the Same Source As Before”

  1. Stringer Bell Avatar
    Stringer Bell

    Looks like a painfully unfunny imitation of Samuel Johnson’s ‘Dictionary of the English Language’ or Ambrose Bierce’s ‘Devil’s Dictionary’.

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  2. Jonathan Mayhew Avatar

    Yeah, like the Devil’s Dictionary without the wit.

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  3. Elizabeth Avatar

    Mm, I read that as agreeing with you. By defining it as a punishment and then pointing out the ridiculous consequences, the poster seems to be implying ironically that we *shouldn’t* use hunger to punish the unemployed.

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  4. Jonathan Mayhew Avatar

    Yes, because we know that unemployed people are in imminent danger of starving to death, like *billions* of people do every day whenever anyone wins the lottery. It’s ridiculous because it doesn’t actually happen that people in the industrialized world starve to death after they lose their jobs.

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    1. bloggerclarissa Avatar

      That’s exactly what I mean. I’m from Ukraine where many people still remember the organized famines. The word starvation should not be thrown around lightly.

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    Anonymous

    Ah, I see what you’re getting at. Sorry I misunderstood!

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  6. David Gendron Avatar

    DEVIANT?

    WTF? But you know what, many capitalists really believe that it’s true!

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