Right wing authoritarianism isn’t subtle.

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added context:

Here is what Ben is replying to:

Pro-Palestinian protesters a part of a group called “𝐏𝐚𝐥𝐞𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐢𝐚𝐧 𝐀𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧,” vandalized a historic painting of Arthur James Balfour at Trinity College Cambridge in England.

Arthur Balfour wrote the Balfour Declaration of 1917 when he was serving as the British Foreign Minister. The letter expressed Britain’s support for a Jewish Homeland in what is now Israel.

Direct link(should work for a bit): https://video.twimg.com/amplify_video/1766117900644151296/vid/avc1/720x1280/pQDXaeuPY2vYbJdX.mp4?tag=14

      • ogmios
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        • jimmydoreisalefty@lemmy.worldOP
          88·
          2 years ago

          Looking at it from the protestors view:

          Protesting the genocide happening: 30,000+ dead

          Are Palestinians replaceable as well…

          Property over human life, every time.

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              • Ilovethebomb@lemm.ee
                37·
                2 years ago

                These protests have actually made me less sympathetic to Palestine, not more so. Destroying property, in particular irreplaceable artwork, is not something I can accept under any circumstances.

                • astreus@lemmy.ml
                  71·
                  2 years ago

                  If destruction of a painting done in 1914 and hanging in a university of a man responsible for oppression in Ireland and the current Middle East crisis (a known racist and anti-semite that passed the Aliens Act of 1905) makes you less sympathetic to ~600,000 starving people and 30,000 dead people then were you actually sympathetic to begin with?

                  • Ilovethebomb@lemm.ee
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                    2 years ago

                    Given this conflict started with the Palestinian government launching a military raid with the purpose of outright murdering civilians, not really.