• Mossy Feathers (She/They)@pawb.social
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    8 months ago

    You know, I couldn’t really figure out what this comic was commenting on until now. It’s rich people. The lions are rich people “educating” the masses on why they should be thankful that the lions exist.

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      8 months ago

      Yeah, it is a really good one. But I keep seeing people not getting the metaphor behind it. So normally I’d be like, seriously dude, you had to write that out? But in this case, yes, yes you had to and thank you for that!

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      8 months ago

      It can be applied to any hegemonic class, really.

      But yes, it’s rich people. Public schools may have originally risen out of defiance of the hegemony, at least in some notably locations, but they were quickly captured by it.

      Schools over a place where the rich of the past can be aggrandised, and the rich of the present can ensure the workforce gains the basic skills to keep making them money, while also hearing about how it is right, and natural, and inevitable that they get to keep the product of your labour.