The hashtag #EconomicViolence has been going strong for quite a while and is now trending in the U.S.
#EconomicViolence started as a way for some on the Left to complain about, well, capitalism basically.
Here are a few examples:
RT @GenAlliance: No one can live on $15,000 a year. It's time to stop #EconomicViolence and close the gap! http://t.co/2L6J3QMl4b
— AFL-CIO ✊? (@AFLCIO) January 10, 2014
The history of Western colonialism, industrialization, capitalism, corporate finance and neoliberalism in two words: #economicviolence
— OhHelloThere (@missVivian_O) January 10, 2014
https://twitter.com/wwseifd/status/421748380688465920
Mocking Occupy Wall Street while taking Tea Partiers "seriously" is #economicviolence
— JC Schildbach, LMHC (@BlankieRespect) January 10, 2014
WHITE PRIVELEGE #economicviolence
— Walrus (@AllanPWalrus) January 10, 2014
"The problem in America is not that there r no jobs. It is that jobs r not paying." –@sarahkendzior http://t.co/MjoBbLPd9T #economicviolence
— Kyle Farquharson (@kylefarq) January 10, 2014
#EconomicViolence is believing that you made your wealth "all on your own," when it really came from exploiting the cheap labor of others.
— Katherine Pater (@KatherinePater) January 10, 2014
#EconomicViolence
Making poverty a crime the poor must be punished for rather than those who create the poverty— Rattlecans (@rattlecans) January 10, 2014
The hate of the disabled and needy and poor and working class displayed by some on #EconomicViolence is surprising. #notreally
— ???Julie??? (@vintagegoddess) January 10, 2014
For Nancy Pelosi, not extending unemployment benefits beyond two years is “economic violence”:
As Americans, we help one another in times of great need. We must #RenewUI and end this #economicviolence: http://t.co/vQvxJxqhvj
— Nancy Pelosi (@SpeakerPelosi) January 10, 2014
Here’s a doozy:
https://twitter.com/suey_park/status/421689939432984576
A relevant follow-up question to that:
@RBPundit @robsolo @suey_park: If people don't work, WHERE DOES THAT STUFF COME FROM?!?
— J.G. Alt (@nycconservative) January 10, 2014
There’s a question that will go unanswered by any of the above tweeters today.
The #EconomicViolence hashtag is being hijacked:
Get a job, go to school, study something worthwhile, work hard & stop using Marxist claptrap like #EconomicViolence as an excuse for failure
— Victor Nikki (@HapkidoBigDad) January 10, 2014
https://twitter.com/LisainDallas/status/421698721915473920
#EconomicViolence = #EconomicIdiocy When liberals find out about Labor Participation Rate and realize unemployment is really 12%
— Shegma Futility (@ohgr81) January 10, 2014
Cutting veteran's benefits that they have MORE than earned while pushing amnesty – #EconomicViolence
— ?? The?FOO ?? (@PolitiBunny) January 10, 2014
Obama family rental property in Hawaii costs more than 2012 median household income http://t.co/QeufoVyjR6 #economicviolence #tcot #teaparty
— Renee Nal (@ReneeNal) January 10, 2014
Government taking your money because they think that they can spend it better than you do #EconomicViolence
— I am so sad (@HayekandHockey) January 10, 2014
https://twitter.com/redsteeze/status/421728611389808640
https://twitter.com/JohnPPatterson/status/421748669051056128
#communists know best about #EconomicViolence just ask your buddy Karl 'The last capitalist we hang shall be the one who sold us the rope'
— Joel (@MapesFactor) January 10, 2014
Your clothes, food, computer, smart phone, etc comes from Capitalism. RT aurabogado: In one word? Capitalism. #EconomicViolence”
— David Morgan (@StarCoreOne02) January 10, 2014
Obama campaigned to stop debt.
He started with $10,626,877,048,913.
After going "line by line" it's $17,331,751,902,270.#EconomicViolence— RufusKings1776 (@RufusKings1776) January 10, 2014
Old enough to remember when #economicviolence wasn't a euphemism. pic.twitter.com/yR8EegRz3K
— TinyShortBunkerInspectionHat (@Popehat) January 10, 2014
Progressives convincing others that something is "free" fosters #EconomicViolence
— Brad Marston (@BradMarston) January 10, 2014
https://twitter.com/Hecate40/status/421746866057785344
Behind every well-meaning progressive idea there is always the muzzle of a gun in the hands of a government enforcer #EconomicViolence
— The People's Cube ?? (@ThePeoplesCube) January 10, 2014
When the 1st Family Village takes yearly $100 Million dollar vacations and tells the rest of America about tire inflation. #EconomicViolence
— Never Trump Team (@NeverTrumpTeam) January 10, 2014
https://twitter.com/BenHowe/status/421729597982404608
Nicely done and keep them coming!