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Remember when liberals were outraged when Russian protesters were arrested for showing blank pieces of paper?
The UK is now in the same stage of slide toward autocracy, evidently.
What is it with liberals literally only seeing bug problems when it's in other countries.
My theory is that, "Liberals" in the Anglo-Saxon style (though the rest are going towards it too) are pretty much Fascists with different lists of "good" races and "bad" races (the kind of people who would make fun of Trump's Oval Office by saying "it's like a Middle Eastern dictator" - so casually voicing prejudice about the Middle East) and that means they're also Nationalists like the Fascists or at the very least think Western society is superior.
Certainly it would explain a lot of things, including how easilly for all their proclamations of being against Racism, they'll support a Genocide mass murdering children in the tens and even hundreds of thousands as long the genociders are from a "white race" and the victims are "non-whites" - they were never against Racism, much less Discrimination in general, only against that which targets whatever minorities it's currently fashionable to claim to defend and even in that they stick to mainly performative support and avoid doing changes with real impact in bringing Equality of Treatment when such changes would affected the Wealthy.
I experienced 2 cases here recently .
1 is was Blue MAGA complaining about using a screenshot of an anti-genocide post on X.
Really upset, bcs you can't use X for something trivial as a genocide. It was hurting them in their much more important battle against Red MAGA.
Yesterday (and today) I saw the many posts about the NZ woman (and kid) arrested for entering the US.
One of the comments was literally "even white people from white countries!".
Instantly reminded me of this.
So I look up this case and see it's big news in NZ, US,etc...
I remarked that the woman didn't have her travel documents and asked if they could name one of the 1000's of brown people that suffered worse fates and unlike her forcefully got removed from their children and deported.
Despite having all their documents in order.
They didn't seem to notice their own (subtle?) racism and didn't like me questioning these double standards.
It could only be about the bad thing Trump did and that I had no empathy for the woman.
Not much later I got banned 😂
But they weren't arrested for showing blank pieces of paper. They were arrested after they wrote things on them.
Were they? That wasn’t clear to me. It sounded like they were arrested for planning to maybe write something.
From the article:
So I don't know why you would think they were arrested for this.
So it’s unclear. Which is what I said.
You didn't seem to think it was unclear when you wrote:
The only reason you had for saying that people in the UK were arrested for showing blank pieces of paper was a statement that said it was "unclear if anyone had been."
So just to make this very clear, you've turned "It is unclear that X" into "X evidently happened", and when I said that it didn't you've said that you said it was "unclear."
There have been plenty of reports of people being arrested for displaying the slogan “I oppose genocide, I support Palestine Action,” and no reports of people being arrested for holding blank pieces of paper, so it's actually quite clear what happened - the random internet guy got a bee in his bonnet about the factual description of people making sure they made it to the demonstration in order to be arrested en masse (rather than in a trickle) and decided to use weasel words to make it sound like people got arrested for something ridiculous, and you took the bait.
During the anti-monarchy protests, when Charlie got his hat on, there was.
If you're referring to Paul Powlesland, he was told he'd be arrested if he wrote a certain slogan on it; he wasn't arrested.
To be clear I misunderstood when I made my initial comment. But from the article it’s not clear. I’m just asking if you know for a fact it didn’t happen and it sounds like you don’t know any more than the author does.
OK fair enough.
I'd say I know enough to dismiss what the commentator said as idle speculation in aid of a narrative. We can't categorically rule it out, but I would expect to actually have been reported on, not merely speculated upon, had it actually happened.