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[–] Mindfury@hexbear.net 106 points 1 year ago (2 children)

0 calls for genocide
0 racist slurs
0 hateful signs

doubt

[–] UlyssesT@hexbear.net 53 points 1 year ago

No one said Eve Fartlow. lib-status

[–] StalinistTransition@lemm.ee 41 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

i mean you can't be racist if you don't think of them as people

wait-

[–] EnsignRedshirt@hexbear.net 96 points 1 year ago (4 children)

0 calls for genocide

Then what were they rallying for?

[–] UlyssesT@hexbear.net 60 points 1 year ago (1 children)

"We support the current thing" my-hero

[–] Dirt_Owl@hexbear.net 43 points 1 year ago

The current thing is genocide yea

[–] autismdragon@hexbear.net 46 points 1 year ago

Based on what I've seen on social media all but the most mask off will make all sorts of bad faith claims an dance around when confronted about this. Usually it boils down to "the solution is for Hamas to surrender". Apparnetly doesn't matter that Israel was doing genocidal actions against Palestinians before Hamas's existance, or that they are doing them currently in the West Bank. Immaterial.

[–] StalinistTransition@lemm.ee 27 points 1 year ago (1 children)

idk americans dont have opinions they sort of just get herded around like animals

[–] gkd@lemmy.ml 27 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Doesn’t appear to be America…

[–] StalinistTransition@lemm.ee 40 points 1 year ago (3 children)

You really think the west has sovereignty besides being dogs of the empire? Its all america, from pacific to atlantic, corrupt as satan.

[–] gkd@lemmy.ml 26 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

You’re right about that, but I think implying they are Americans only lessens the impact of the statement. Better to say it’s the American ideals. People from London are not American but a significant portion of them are indeed poisoned by ideals of the country, which is the problem.

On that note, I’d normally call similar things a western belief but in this instance it’s such a predominately American vs overall western idea right now that genocide is fine that it’s hard to call it anything but.

[–] hopelessbyanxiety@hexbear.net 4 points 1 year ago

I thought the islamophobia was invented by Europeans, it's kind of a tradition from the middle ages or so. Being genocidal against the target is just the next step

[–] CTHlurker@hexbear.net 25 points 1 year ago (1 children)

We're all living in Amerika, Amerika est Wunderbar

[–] AFineWayToDie@hexbear.net 8 points 1 year ago

Coca-cola, Wonderbra

maybe they just really like holding up signs

[–] hotcouchguy@hexbear.net 76 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)
[–] mar_k@hexbear.net 47 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

EVERY single photo of zionist demonstrations I've seen so far are made up EXCLUSIVELY of white people. I saw clips of zionist crowds in objectively diverse cities like London, NYC, Sao Paulo, Berlin: trying to spot a poc is like playing where's waldo (still haven't found him)

[–] biden@hexbear.net 50 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

There was a zionist rally of around a hundred people in my city after the Oct 7th attacks. I live in a 53% non-white city in New England. So looking out my window and seeing a 100% white crowd marching downtown was pretty uncanny

[–] autismdragon@hexbear.net 24 points 1 year ago

God and that was right after the attacks too, where you could sort of forgive an uninformed person for being fooled.

[–] Rojo27@hexbear.net 67 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Supporters of a cop state thanking the cops. lol. lmao. Lick boots, but don't fucking brag about it. Fuck offdata-laughing

[–] Dirt_Owl@hexbear.net 62 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Real "If what you were doing mattered, they'd make it illegal" hours

[–] M68040@hexbear.net 56 points 1 year ago

They say "0 firecrackers shot at the police" as if it's a good thing

[–] cosecantphi@hexbear.net 43 points 1 year ago

0 calls for genocide at our "Oh god please continue to help Israel do a genocide, please give them more weapons and funding to obliterate every Palestinian off the face of the Earth" rally

[–] CarbonScored@hexbear.net 37 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

150,000 pro-Palestine protestors, there were 29 arrests.

In the video I count maybe 200 pro-Israel protestors. Just with rounding they could be 20x more likely to be arrested and still wouldn't have a single arrest.

I've got no doubt the pro-Palestine lot are more likely to be arrested, but as we say in the scientific community, the population of genocide supporters, n, was insufficient to draw significant conclusions. To draw such a pitiful crowd in a population centre of over 2 million is pretty bad showing.

The police reported the ~~protesters~~ bootlickers thanked them for their service. It wasn't a protest, it was a rally for people who think killing arabs is cool

[–] Evilphd666@hexbear.net 24 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Low sign energy! Like I can barely make anything out. And it's all so inorganic and bland. They all look so inconvienced for being there.

[–] mar_k@hexbear.net 29 points 1 year ago

Their numbers are also fucking pathetic in comparison lmao. London had 150,000 for Palestine at a single point in time

[–] blakeus12@hexbear.net 6 points 1 year ago

what the hell are they protesting? their country is funding the genocide already

Either a complete lack of critical thinking ability or just shamelessly disingenuous. The result is the same.

The smugness of white people is almost worse than their bloodlust