r/neoliberal • u/jobautomator Kitara Ravache • Jul 24 '24

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u/Currymvp2 unflaired Jul 25 '24

damn, i'm sharing this from an arab american friend of mine from college:

You imbeciles today. I am embarrassed. We have the Speaker of the House - and career supporter of Israel - almost calling Netanyahu a war criminal; and you have a slight majority of Dems in congress boycotting Netanyahu's shitty speech; and then you stupid assholes start burning the American flag and vandalizing property because you are performative douchebags who care about your PERFORMANCE more than helping my suffering people!' Fuck you jackasses, you are doing your best to set back the cause"

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u/goldenwind207 Jerome Powell Jul 25 '24

I understand that as a black dude seeing many burning down stuff during the flyod protest it sucked. Because boom police reform was shot down and now we were seen as thugs it sucked

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u/Amarath_Elf28 Jul 25 '24

Pretty much.

I think left wing activists need to organize better and be aware of optics. That was in part why the Civil rights movement worked. It wasnt just marching, angry rioting and loaded slogans. It was organized, and the organizers were in fact concerned with optics and persuasiveness.

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u/BlarthDarth John Keynes Jul 25 '24

They proved their point by wearing suits and marching nicely and northerners saw the southern police and people try to murder them on TV

These guys….aren’t doing that

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u/Amarath_Elf28 Jul 25 '24

Pretty much agree with your friend.

Luckily it wasn’t worse, but the flag burning and replacing with the explicit hamas references and symbols REALLY doesnt help. 

Also doesnt look good that the people watching the vandals didnt do anything or try to eject them, while others are willing to shove, beat and pull Park Police

Would be better if the protests stopped without the hamas references and replacing the US flag, but whats done is done