A wilted pale flower rests on an empty wooden chair in a softly lit blue room.

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Russell Brand

Her death must be sad for the handful of people she was nice to and the rich people who got richer under her stewardship. It isn’t sad for anyone else.

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What it means

Our interpretation.

The speaker argues that mourning this woman should be limited to a small circle: the few individuals she treated kindly and the wealthy who profited while she managed things. Everyone else, in their view, has no reason for sorrow. It is a pointed, scornful judgment about whose interests her career served.

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