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It is socially acceptable, too, to rip down photos of Jewish hostages, and cackle about it, right out in the open. Anti-Israel people operate from a position of privilege. |
| Jews: the only minority group that is not entitled to feel unsafe. |
I’m not a poster ripper, but I do question why they are all over my neighborhood. We have young local women from disadvantaged backgrounds who are missing. I would understand seeing those posters in my community because there is a chance that someone might have actually seen these women. The Israeli posters feel like a step up from an I stand with Israel Facebook post: you put it up to demonstrate you care, but it is actually an empty gesture. For those hanging the posters, perhaps extending that same energy to missing people from their own locality would be a better use of time and effort. |
People who have been ID’d doing it seem to feel compelled to walk it back though. And getting job offers revoked suggests their political position is outside the Overton window in non-college world at least. |
You can do the same. |
It’s a raising awareness campaign to keep the hostages at the center of the conversation about the war as everyone seems to be moving into thinking about this as a war that just randomly started again due to “oppression” rather than being provoked by massacres and then hostage-taking. I don’t think it’s an empty gesture. |
What exactly do you expect to happen? People write their Congressmen and Bibi suddenly cares about the hostages again? Seriously? It’s a hollow gesture. |
Very unlikely. -a Jewish person |
Look at your “argument” in your last two posts. You’re just stomping you’re feet. You’re not helping us. -A Jewish person |
Out of sight, out of mind. It’s no different than any other public awareness campaign. What the heck does a pink ribbon accomplish for breast cancer? I can’t get worked up about the posters. If I saw someone ripping one down, I might film it but I would not confront the person or get into a brawl about it. At the end of the day it’s a piece of paper. |
The strange thing to me is the happy/hate filled look many of the people have as they are tearing them down. What a miserable, empty life one must have to do this, laughing all the way. |
No. Look at Cooper Union, for example. No reasonable person could say that the anti-Israel protesters were the ones without privilege. |
Without privilege… where? On a college campus? Okay, then maybe you’re right. But there are tons of other environments. Campus radicals are in for a rude awakening in many other settings, and some have already gotten one. |
College campuses are very important. Future leaders and the future of the Democratic party. |
There are 3 colleges my son was supposed to apply to that are now on the chopping block. Does that answer your question? |