Episode 26: "Dance Party, Vol. VI; Dance Dance Revolution"

Episode 26: “Dance Party: Vol. VI; Dance Dance Revolution”

In this twenty-sixth episode of Learned Hands, the Official Podcast of the Westerosi Bar Association, Maester Merry, Clint from Laws of Ice and Fire ask: Did the people of King’s Landing have the right to revolution? If so, why?

Our analysis this week includes:

The Smallfolk Strike Back! We cover what happened to get folks to the point where they’re ready to storm the basti… erm, dragonpit. The Return of Clint’s Lockean Right to Revolution.Merry responds with some (not necessarily) Marxism. No one trusts a goddamn word Archmaester Gyldayn says.Your Hands cover the overlapping terms of riot, revolution, uprising, rebellion, and everything in between.General agreement that Cock Taxes are bad.We cover what this part of the Dance has in common with the Bread Riots, Stonewall, Watts, Warsaw, Minneapolis, Compton’s Cafeteria, and even the February Revolution.Finally, we deliver a final verdict on whether and why the people of King’s Landing had the Right to Revolution.

Supplemental reading: 

Taking the Enlightenment Seriously Requires a Discussion of RaceMLK’s Grosse Pointe speechShould countries have the right to rebel?Was Stonewall a riot, an uprising, or a rebellion?Steven Attewell on the Targaryen Dracocracy

Bumpers by Reg Levy. Intro & Outro music courtesy Sid Luscious & The Pants. None of this should be construed as legal advice OBVIOUSLY. 

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