They are not breaking this of the rich, they are breaking things of a university which is funded with public taxpayers money in the Netherlands. The rich are much better at avoiding paying taxes than the rest of the people.
If their goal was to change the minds of people that matter they would go demolish things in government buildings (which doesn’t settle in Amsterdam) or the houses of politicians, maybe even fight the police or something.
The people who did the all the damage here are not the same people who organised the protests. This damage is done by people who are angry and act like hooligans who’s team just lost a match. They might be on the same side as the protesters, but they are not helping the people in Gaza either because they’re giving far-right politicians excuses to spill their racist bullshit about how they shouldn’t support Islamic people because they are violent by nature.
I don’t think you understand what people you are defending here.
First off, y’all gotta stop downvoting folks who are having a conversation in good faith.
In response to your comment: I used to think exactly like this, marching in the BLM protests in Seattle and watching looters with selfish motives. It was frustrating and felt like it was undercutting the message among moderates. The thing is, moderates were not going to care about the important issues regardless, so I’m not sure why we’d cater to them.
I think it’s a fair stance to take when the protests don’t have life and death stakes. But people are being murdered and if the fastest way to get the public to pay attention is to break stuff, well, people are more important than things, every time.
Dude you’re fighting a lost battle. These commenters are clearly not aware that Amsterdam is not in the US, that we don’t have a fascist state (although fuck Wilders), and that destroying public property is not winning sympathy points in the Netherlands. I agree that the UvA must cut ties with Israel, but don’t be juvenile.
I’m not expecting to ‘win the fight’, but I’m not gonna stop answering because people think I’m payed by Israel or something. I upvote this guy’s posts on news about Gaza regularly but he treats me as an enemy from my first comment. Just wanted to provide context but it is clearly not appreciated.
They are not breaking this of the rich, they are breaking things of a university which is funded with public taxpayers money in the Netherlands. The rich are much better at avoiding paying taxes than the rest of the people.
If their goal was to change the minds of people that matter they would go demolish things in government buildings (which doesn’t settle in Amsterdam) or the houses of politicians, maybe even fight the police or something.
The people who did the all the damage here are not the same people who organised the protests. This damage is done by people who are angry and act like hooligans who’s team just lost a match. They might be on the same side as the protesters, but they are not helping the people in Gaza either because they’re giving far-right politicians excuses to spill their racist bullshit about how they shouldn’t support Islamic people because they are violent by nature.
I don’t think you understand what people you are defending here.
First off, y’all gotta stop downvoting folks who are having a conversation in good faith.
In response to your comment: I used to think exactly like this, marching in the BLM protests in Seattle and watching looters with selfish motives. It was frustrating and felt like it was undercutting the message among moderates. The thing is, moderates were not going to care about the important issues regardless, so I’m not sure why we’d cater to them.
I think it’s a fair stance to take when the protests don’t have life and death stakes. But people are being murdered and if the fastest way to get the public to pay attention is to break stuff, well, people are more important than things, every time.
Dude you’re fighting a lost battle. These commenters are clearly not aware that Amsterdam is not in the US, that we don’t have a fascist state (although fuck Wilders), and that destroying public property is not winning sympathy points in the Netherlands. I agree that the UvA must cut ties with Israel, but don’t be juvenile.
I’m not expecting to ‘win the fight’, but I’m not gonna stop answering because people think I’m payed by Israel or something. I upvote this guy’s posts on news about Gaza regularly but he treats me as an enemy from my first comment. Just wanted to provide context but it is clearly not appreciated.