in Israel and the USA, people are murdering thousands at a time by sitting at a desk and signing papers. Getting angry about it is punishable by death
I always found it weird that the term "Schreibtischtäter" (desk murderer) is only used for Nazis and DDR politicians but noone else. It makes it pretty clear that indirect murder is seen as acceptable in our society as long as you are part of the current hegemony.
Thought I found a cool new term to use.
Arendt used a different term to describe the same thing but "Schreibtischtäter" was first used in the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung.
Ah, gotcha. Unfortunately, Wikipedia gives it to her.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Desk_murderer
You missed this part:
Hannah Arendt, who reported on Eichmann's trial for The New Yorker, published Eichmann in Jerusalem in 1963, a book sometimes falsely credited with being the source of the term "desk murderer". In this book she described him and his associates as the "modern, state-employed mass murderers" and talks of the "bureaucracy of murder". She first used the term "desk murderer" in early 1965 but this was not translated into German at the time and she herself did not use Schreibtischtäter in any of her German language publications. She used the term "desk murderer" in an English introduction to the report by German journalist Bernd Naumann on the Frankfurt Auschwitz trials in 1966 and, from there, it was translated to the German Schreibtischtäter.
The German origin of "desk murder" dates from 1964, when the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung used the term for the first time.
I get it, I'm cool with it,but I'm not gonna use it when the first paragraph is this:
The term "desk murderer" (German: Schreibtischtäter)[1] is attributed to Hannah Arendt and is used to describe state-employed mass murderers like Adolf Eichmann, who planned and organised the Holocaust without taking part in killings personally.[2]
Somebody needs to edit that shit. Where's the lady that removes all the Wikipedia Nazi propaganda?
It's parallel to western view of soviet (etc, etc) prisons while tellingly ignoring their own.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_serial_killers_by_number_of_victims
The top result:
Luis Garavito - Possible victims: 194–300+
If we calculated the number of victims Brian Thompson had, let alone any social murderer, anyone on this list wouldn't warrant a wikipedia article. These absolute fucking freaks dwarf the death tolls of nuclear weapons. I can't imagine being depraved enough to side with them.
Someone should start adding social murders to the serial killer page
Technically Brian Thompson was a spree killer (spree length 3 years). To be a serial killer you need a multi day cooling off period between murders and I doubt there were many days that UHC didn't kill at least one client.
Normalize referring to modern bureaucrats that cause suffering and death as little Eichmanns.
I've always found youtube comments to be more tolerable since the cracker-per-capita stat is lower
