Decor seen in a 19 million dollar Beverly Hills mansion - talk about tone deaf
Decor seen in a 19 million dollar Beverly Hills mansion - talk about tone deaf
[Image description: a dining room with teal blue walls, with a pink neon sign saying "let them eat cake" written in cursive.]
For those who don't know, the phrase "let them eat cake" is commonly attributed to Marie Antoinette, the Queen of France in the late 18th century. However, there's no concrete evidence she actually said this. The phrase is used to portray her as out of touch with the suffering of the French people during a time of widespread poverty and famine.
Having the phrase "let them eat cake" in a super luxurious house is incredibly insensitive because it symbolizes a callous disregard for the struggles of those less fortunate. It's a reminder of the kind of detachment and insensitivity that can perpetuate social inequalities and exacerbate class divides, which is particularly tone-deaf in a setting of opulence.
I'm gonna say they probably just think it sounds cool and have no idea what it actually means
Generally when something can be explained due to stupidity or maleficence, stupidity is usually the culprit.
Given that this quote is related an historical myth, I think this stupidity is way more likely.
Stupid, but still insensitive.
It's not tone deaf. They know exactly what they're doing. That's the tone they want.
It's interesting to note that she was widely hated even at the time though not because she was a rich noble, but because she was austrian. So it's possible the phrase is a fabrication that stuck.
Chatgpt ass comment
Is it still "tone deaf" if they know exactly what they're saying?
Yeah, tone deaf isn’t the right word. Overtly evil and stupid is probably the phrase they were looking for.
Hanlon's Razor: Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity.
I could easily see an out of touch rich person thinking of it only as a thing that goes along with rich people, (and not realize the actual meaning).
Like the rich person equivalent of "live laugh love" and "it's wine o'clock"?
By the way if anybody has any of those on their walls, I hate you and you deserve death.
I mean we already have a solution to this don't we?
Yes.
The bourgeoisie know EXACTLY what they are, and what the joke is. They get it. They're laughing at us.
Constantly laughing at us. They know how stupid we are for doing exactly what they want like their little slaughter pigs. Generation after generation, we obey them with a smile on our faces.
So I mean, can you really blame them for laughing at the joke, when we're the ones making it funny for them? :-(
Would you blame the jester or the king for the plauged citizens locked out?
My wife is a pastry chef and her dream is to open her own pastry shop and called it "let them eat cake".
Your wife probably needs to have a charitable angle to her core business plan or people may get mad if it's solely catering to wealthy people. Something like weekly cupcake donations to a local shelter.
I wouldn't. That's just begging for a guillotine shop to open up next door.
People forget that it was the bakers that got it first at the start of the French Revolution.
"Up the Bundt" would be a better name.
Your wife must attain her dream!
It's like they're trying to get eaten at this point
I very badly want to know what that pattern is in the pool. The striping is tacky but what's that crest/logo?
Looks like it says "The Beverly Estate". I really like the "Cocaine toothache drop" backrest on the pool bench, stay classy 1%!
Tacky is an understatement. The striping is superglue.
It says "The Beverly Estate," in part because it's located at 1326 Beverly Estates Dr. in Beverly Hills.
You beat me, I swear I hadn't seen your comment before I flew around Beverly Hills on the map and found it
if you search for let them eat cake decor, you'll see it has turned into another live laugh love
Yeah, unpopular opinion but this is just whimsical (albeit tone deaf) kitchen decor about cake. Not “evil”.
Arbeit macht frei is just whimsical tone deaf commentary on hard work, amirite?
Let them eat the rich
The cake is a lie!
The cake is a lie!
1326 Beverly Estate Dr, Beverly Hills, CA 90210, USA
Omg too soon
Only three bedrooms? No thanks.
I didn't realize at first that the property manager decorated it all this way to be ready for renting out lol
The over-the-topness of it all makes more and less sense that way- let them eat cake and monopoly man, naked newspaper reader and swimmer ladies, cocaine ad bench cushion by the pool
All of what is shown is in line with rich SoCal taste. I entirely believe that it is done as it has been lived in.
Who gets dressed to read a newspaper?
That circular couch with the walkway upstairs looks like the house from Incredibles 2.
Where did they move? I mean like an exact address?
I think I'm the only person who gets sent to the general Beverly Hills listing page rather than this specific listing.
