Right wing authoritarianism isn’t subtle.

edit:

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

  • jimmydoreisalefty@lemmy.worldOP
    104·
    8 months ago

    Property over human life, every time.

    You may be right, but that is why the above statement was made.

    Backlash over historic paintings vs. 30,000+ deaths and counting.

    I guess that is what the protestors want…

    • wandermind@sopuli.xyz
      66·
      8 months ago

      There are atrocities of different scales happening all the time. There are only so many irreplaceable historical artifacts. If you destroy a historical artifact for every atrocity, eventually there will be no historical artifacts left and atrocities will still be happening.

      • astreus
        91·
        8 months ago

        Tired of writing this: this painting is not some culturally important piece of art. It’s a little over 100 years old, hanging in a university, of a man that was responsible for massacres in Ireland (Mitchelstown Massacre) which got him the name “Bloody Balfour”. Regardless of where you stand on Palestine, Balfour was not a good human and this is akin to toppling a minor statue of a Confederate in America - one that is not even on display to the wider public.

        EDIT to add a quote from Balfour when asked about whether the treatment of Black people in South Africa was immoral:

        “We have to face the facts,” Lord Balfour said. “Men are not born equal, the white and black races are not born with equal capacities: they are born with different capacities which education cannot and will not change.”