#left wing protesters

[secular-jew]

Darwin Award winner of the week:

Germany: Protester glued his hand to the road. Very strong glue. Very big idiot. Instead of ripping his hand off the road, the police cut out a piece of the road out and released him with his hand still stuck to the pavement. Let him deal with it!

[the-ships-to-rule-them-all]

the level at which people are misusing the term "Never Again" in the far left absolutely infuriates me.

"Never Again" doesn't refer to the idea of no more genocides -- unfortunately people are evil and corrupt and seek scapegoats and destruction, there were genocides in the years following the Holocaust, there were genocides 10 years ago, there are multiple genocides going on as we speak

"Never Again" means we as Jews will pay attention to the warning signs, will not mindlessly allow antisemitism to fester and take over our communities, we will fight back. it means we will be proud. it means we will not let you hate us without a word of refusal.

"Never Again" is a warning for us, it is a reminder that what happened then can happen now -- is happening now. The Far Left doesn't get to use it against us. You don't get to turn our tragedies into hate-speech and antisemitic rhetoric.

Am Yisrael Chai

[comrade-onion]

A Critique of the Western Left

The Western Left has been marred by infighting in recent years, effectively crippling any capacity it has to fight back against the vicious capitalist system it rightfully opposes.

In my eyes, I see two main contributing factors to the general incompetency of the Left in the Western world. Infighting and ineffective campaigning.

Infighting between sects within the left along niche ideological lines stunts its ability to grow its membership and influence by making the movement look irrelevant, hostile, and elitist. The right isn't divided along small ideological lines. They can and will cooperate to spread their collective hateful ideologies. To combat this effectively, we need to put our differences aside and unite along our common enemy: the capitalist system. Only when the abolition of capitalism has been undertaken can we afford to disagree on minor policy and theoretical differences.

Secondly, Leftist campaigning is so focused on ideological niches that it no longer appeals to the working people. The average worker is not concerned about who Gonzalo was. They are too busy worrying about food, about rent, about utilities and education, and safety. We need to campaign issues that are affecting the people the most. We NEED to appeal to the masses and embrace left-wing populism to garner the popular support needed to oppose fascism if we want any chance of facilitating positive and lasting change.

We have a common enemy, and we must not fight each other. Instead, we must work together for the good of the people and for the good of the planet.

[ctl-yuejie]

the projected results for germany are fucking dismal

[bostonwalks]

Campus on Fire:

Why Antisemitism Matters

How a nexus of three lethal ideologies may have us singing a dirge for America and the West. https://jewishjournal.com/cover_story/374168/campus-on-fire-why-antisemitism-matters/

[28whitepeonies]

The latest in my series of protest placards x

[deborahdeshoftim5779]

one jew to another — shame on you

Another example of the hit-and-run ad hominem attacks by those who wholeheartedly believe Palestinian terrorist propaganda. Once again, I ask myself why these people can't put their names to their ideas. I put my own Tumblr username to everything I write, and I am capable of engaging in debate with those of the opposite side.

The yes-men for Palestinian terrorists seemingly believe that comments such as "shame on you" and even more obscene abuse will halt me in my tracks and change my opinion. Very rarely do I receive some detailed analysis of what I've said in context, backed by sound refutation.

Furthermore, yes-men for Palestinian terrorists love identity politics. Apparently, the fact that this anonymous hitman is Jewish is supposed to carry some weight. But what, exactly? He or she provides no evidence to support his or her meaningless comment. He or she seems to be convinced that being a Jew and disagreeing with the pro-Israel cause is an unanswerable argument.

It isn't.

Unfortunately for this anonymous troll, a little research would have gone a long way before his or her hit-and-run denunciation. I am a British woman who supports Israel. Unlike the pro-Palestinian side, I don't have to lean on identity politics to make my arguments. I don't constantly tout my nationality and ethnicity in every sentence to manipulate people into agreeing with me. I am capable of defending Israel using facts that people can easily verify for themselves.

Before and since October 7, I have noted a profound difference between those who defend Israel and those who parrot Palestinian terrorist propaganda. We, the pro-Israel side, carefully read what the anti-Israel side says. The anti-Israel side, however, often does not carefully read what we say because they are convinced that it's impossible for us to even have a valid counter-argument, let alone be right. They assume that the most emotionally-laden claims backed with tsunamis of ad hominem attacks are so persuasive that nobody would dare to defend Israel in public afterwards. Judging by how many universities have capitulated to the pro-Palestinian mob, they are right to assume that their tactics often work.

The problem is, such tactics don't work on me. And that is what infuriates the anonymous hit-and-run yes-men for Palestinian terrorists on Tumblr. My refusal to join the mob, and my insistence upon publicising the widely-ignored truth about Palestinian terrorism and the Islamic jihad ideology that breeds it represents a direct threat to their narrative. And that threat isn't based on the fact that I have persuaded millions to think like me. The numbers are usually against those of us who support Israel.

The threat is that what I say shreds the fictitious claims to morality spouted by the pro-Palestinian side. Very often, pro-Palestinian mouthpieces either cannot respond to what I am saying or respond with half-truths and abuse. Some of them try quoting prominent thinkers on their side, but when I am able to disprove much of what has been said, I often hear no response. Many of them, especially the liberals, have never even heard of some of the facts I cite. This despite many of them possessing a university degree.

This shows that the pro-Palestinian cause isn't based on a thorough understanding of the Israeli-Arab conflict. It isn't even based on a thorough understanding of the Palestinians. After all, so many Western yes-men for the Palestinian cause are unaware of what Palestinians actually want, what their media teaches, or of the jihadist incarnation of Islam that they follow. Unaware or don't want to be aware.

The pro-Palestinian cause in the West is based on an overweening belief in one's own innate righteousness, and a desperation to adopt any position that will enhance one's reputation as being "righteous". This is why Western left-wingers and/or liberals on the pro-Palestinian side are so easily seduced by jihadist ideology, which is also based on an overweening belief in self-righteousness, combined with Islamic utopianism and enforced with ruthlessness.

Once we understand that the main driver of the Western pro-Palestinian mouthpiece is a belief in his own righteousness and moral superiority and a pathological desperation to boast of his righteous credentials using token gestures and reciting popular rhetoric, we see why he often believes the best response to counter-arguments is personal abuse.

Left-wingers and liberals in particular (though they are not the only ones) have already made this their modus operandi on other contentious issues, often treating critics with disdain and smearing their reputations, and haughtily dismissing the possibility that said critics might have a valid point. And Islamic fundamentalism applies the smear of heresy to "disbelievers", something many left-wingers and liberals have keenly adopted on the Israel issue (and some others), either because they already believed in such an idea before, or because they find Islamic radicalism and utopianism profoundly attractive.

That's why the sub-human mob of Palestinian beheaders, rapists, mutilators, torturers, kidnappers, looters, and arsonists who poured out of Gaza on October 7 were sanitised and even glorified as 'brave resistance to oppression'. That's why since the terrorist attack, an emboldened faction of the pro-Palestinian side has terrorised Jews worldwide and become more and more Nazi in its rhetoric.

If anyone dares to point out how this "cause" lacks morality and lacks the truth, the edifice of self-righteousness and delusions of persecution that sustain the mindset of a pro-Palestinian will collapse. The very threat makes him panic.

His only weapon, therefore, is personal abuse.

[badpoliticaltakes]

Hi! Quick questions, what do you think of LGBT+ people and some of the stuff the conservative party says about them? Also, what was the thing/event that made you start leaning more conservative? Thanks!

i've had to cut this down so it isn't like, a 50,000 word essay, but the tldr is i'm not staunchly against LGBTQ+ folks.

I, myself, am bisexual, and am probably far more lenient than most of my conservative peers (likely due to the fact I'm not Christian tbh). There are, as with all things, extreme versions of LGBTQ ideas that I thoroughly disagree with (see rabies-sexual, and auti-gender for example), a sort of middle ground where I don't agree logically but I can deeply empathise with the experience (aspec community, anything outside the gender binary), and then the ideas I have no issue with (gay marriage, binary transition when done by adults). I can go deeply into each of these and my reasons why if anyone would like!

As regards for the conservative party's words (I'm assuming you mean the UK tories btw). I agree with their response to the Cass report (see here), but not with the huge number of tories who were against gay marriage in 2013 (source). Being LGBT+ and conservative are not mutually exclusive, despite what some thing (see here!).

This is actually deeply related to what made me conservative - I identified as transgender (specifically genderqueer) during my teenage years as well as asexual and panromantic, I campaigned hard for LGBT+ rights. I was so frustrated all the time, and so so very scared. I identified this way when I was 12, and built my school's support group, marched in pride events every year, and held so many young queer people when they felt so terrified by the world. I lost friends to this, and I almost killed myself over how so terrified I was, so ashamed and alone even though I was out very visibly. People spat on me, and refused to sit next to me, and assaulted my (also queer) friends.

And then, when I became an adult, my hormones levelled out, and I started getting to know people who viewed the world differently. I stumbled across an interview between Jordan Peterson and Abigail Shrirer, and realised that my emotions had been played on by the media. I was a young, autistic girl, who felt different. And that very normal feeling ended up becoming something I nearly ended my own life over, because I was convinced that the government (and my friends and family) wanted to hurt me.

I spoke to my mother, who had refused to view me as non-binary, and found that I wasn't met with a woman who hated her daughter and wished her dead, but a mother who cried herself to sleep when I asked her if I could have top surgery. A mother who was worried I was being manipulated as a child, and wanted to protect her daughter. (I still disagree with my mother on a number of political issues, but even then she is still the kindest woman I have ever known.)

There are obviously people for whom that feeling isn't just teenage hormones, and they have my deepest empathy because it was such an awful, awful experience, but I firmly believe that there are many young people for whom, like me, the feeling of wanting to rip your breasts off with your bare hands will pass. I know it sounds dismissive, and invalidating, and teen-me would have seethed with rage at who I am now, but I'm truly the happiest I have ever been.

I'm not saying everyone should be conservative, but when you feel like I did, with so much rage, its worth thinking about who's stoking that fire and why.

[troythecatfish]

Every protest MUST be disruptive, or it will be ineffective

If the CEO of Babykillers inc, can look out his window at people holding signs, and go right back to work, then what's the point?

If you rent a truck and park it across 4 lanes of traffic, then let the air out of the tires, you stop thousands of people from going to work

Will those workers be mad at you? Of course!

You know who else is mad?

The CEO of Babykillers inc, whose production just crashed to a halt

THAT is peaceful protest

If your protest CAN be ignored

It WILL be ignored.

Therefore any effective protest MUST be disruptive

[doreyg]

I am actively campaigning for a political party (go Labour! The least cartoonishly evil of the two currently viable options) so I cannot say this to anybody because I have to win votes and so on. But god, is it hard not to scream at some people for being TOTALLY FUCKING STUPID DID YOU REPLACE YOUR BRAIN WITH A ROCK OR-

[infectiouspiss]

my grandmother held sit down protests in the middle of the streets to force the local council to put in crossings???? holy shit ?????

[comrade-onion]

Might wanna start a local ANTIFA chapter. What do yall think?

[the-lady-of-the-labyrinth]

It’s hard not to feel pessimistic when half the people you were counting on to help save the world turn out to be a bunch of pricks.

[prokyon]

[long post of israeli bullshit propaganda]

oh i wonder if this person cares about "the joos"?? maybe their racist bullshit is at least backed up by a veneer of caring about antisemitism or something-

the FIRST post you see on this zionist shithead's blog:

if you dont know what this is, it's fascist "the west is collapsing because women get rights" crap. it's very very stock standard for nazis. you got it all here, you got ableist r-slur, you got "darkmaga" pepe frog, you got "rome fell because women!!!" and "abortion is evil and an afront to god" and "controlling the reproductive resources of the West is a necessity" crap.

but oh yeah go ahead and tell me that zionist freaks are very Jew-friendly and not right wing fuckheads, and that we should bother engaging with empty handwringing over false claims about "the left are the REAL antisemites" anymore.

it's a fucking joke.

[basterdly]

it is impressive how bidens managed to piss off both sides of a massive political division but whats more impressive imo is the centrists dont like him either. people whose whole thing is having no opinions.

[doppelnatur]

Democracy would slay so hard if it worked.