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I find this very concerning that people protesting a genocide and display flags of terrorist organisations is somehow a worse crime that the actual genocide itself.

It doesn’t make sense when we have musicians being held to a higher standard than countries and our own fucking government. Makes me want to fly a Hezbollah flag myself. I would argue flying the Union Jack is supporting terror around the world. The same as that Yankee flag.

Edit: Ive just got out of surgery with a GA so will reply to these once I feel human again.

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[–] mannycalavera@feddit.uk 13 points 1 day ago (1 children)

You have to ask yourself why he didn't simply wave a Palestinian flag? Why did he choose a proscribed terrorist flag? Did he not understand the difference (useful idiot syndrome) or he did and genuinely wanted to promote a terrorist group?

It's the same thing as at a previous concert shouting "Kill your local MP". 🤷

[–] dependencyinjection@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Because it gets attention on the issue? I don’t really know you’d have to ask him.

I don’t care that he did it, I care that people and government are more outraged over this than literal tens of thousands of dead innocents. And that we support genocide as a country.

Furthermore, I’m not sure I feel comfortable calling a resistence group terrorists if we don’t give the IDF the same label.

Are we going to arrest the Brits who went to fight for the IDF.

[–] mannycalavera@feddit.uk 0 points 1 day ago

Because it gets attention on the issue?

Waving a Palestinian flag might have the same attention without the connection with a proscribed terrorist group?

I care that people and government are more outraged over this than literal tens of thousands of dead innocents.

We can do both. The world isn't and shouldn't be a zero sum game. Both should outrage us.

And that we support genocide as a country.

We shouldn't support them. Sickening that so many countries do.

Furthermore, I’m not sure I feel comfortable calling a resistence group terrorists if we don’t give the IDF the same label.

Many do.

Are we going to arrest the Brits who went to fight for the IDF.

Maybe we should.