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Right wing authoritarianism isn’t subtle. (lemmy.world)

submitted 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Right wing authoritarianism isn’t subtle.

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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

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

the hand wringing over university property being compared to ~30k lives and ~600k starving people has to stop.

Literally was my first line. The thing that got my goat was the comments lamenting the painting and saying they were now less sympathetic to Palestinians because a thing they had never heard of or seen before was destroyed in protest of that person's legacy.

But I worry that it is dangerous to celebrate violence just because we like the cause.

I find it very disingenuous to compare vandalism to violence. When a house is burning, what's the advice people give? Leave everything behind: things can be replaced, people can't. This painting is digitised. It's a minor painting. There are dozens of others. Comparing its vandalism to the violence the Palestinian people are facing is what prompted me to say "nothing of value has been lost".