Reply #125: +1. I just don't understand the vehemence. [View All]

[wickerwoman]

It's not your country. You're not paying for it. These people have less than zero impact on your lives unless you want them too. Why get worked up about it to the point where you're saying "fuck you" to a couple of kids on their wedding day?

As has been said above, if you're worried about inequality and privilege, start *doing* something about it in your own backyard. It's cheap and easy to crap on how other countries do things because ultimately nobody in America who is "outraged" over the Royals is ever going to have to do anything about it.

Chelsea Clinton's wedding got heaps of press coverage and cost a mint but you didn't see tons of people saying "fuck the Clintons"- or you did (hooray DU!) but they were shut down by people arguing that it's tacky to wish people ill on their wedding day. And it is. Whoever they are.