[weli]

When did hacker news become so right wing that saying the French revolution was a good societal movement is seen as "glorifying mass executions"? lmao

[labcomputer]

You… might want to read more about what happened during the French Revolution, after they killed all the royalty.

[kergonath]

To be fair, they killed a lot of people before killing the royalty as well. And then, when you dig a bit deeper, you realise that the royalty did quite a bit of the killing itself, just shortly before. It's amazing, it's almost like History does not happen in a. vacuum, and events depend on the cultural context and other events that happened previously.

[bboozzoo]

Liberty Leading the People would probably be flagged as highly NSFW too.

[emtel]

I'm not sure you have to be terribly right wing to say that a "societal movement" which includes something called "The Reign of Terror", in which tens of thousands of people were executed, was a bad thing. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_Revolution#Reign_of_Ter...)