No speech is powerless. That’s exactly why the CCP supresses it.
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hark@lemmy.world 5 weeks agoBeing able to talk about the genocide of the Palestinian people doesn’t seem to change anything. Turns out freedom of speech is happily granted when your speech is powerless.
Lucidlethargy@sh.itjust.works 5 weeks ago
hark@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
That just proves my point. If bringing it up didn’t matter then the CCP wouldn’t bother surpressing it.
BmeBenji@lemm.ee 5 weeks ago
You asked why people care about it so much, and I’m pretty confident the reason is because we’re allowed to talk about it here. If we don’t, someone will forget about it. Those who don’t know history are doomed to repeat it.
And yes, to your point, those who know history are doomed to watch others repeat it but remembering it is nonetheless valuable.
hark@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
You speak of nobility and remembering the past but I’ve only seen this used as a cheap way to score political points on lemmy.world (and upvotes) for what that matters.
Someone casually browsing who doesn’t know the event would only glean that the CCP is bad, but they would have no idea what the students were even protesting about. So much for remembering the past.
As for nazis on the ballot, we have two presidential candidates and both fully support israel’s campaign of genocide and lebensraum.
BmeBenji@lemm.ee 5 weeks ago
Well you didn’t ask why the OP was laser focused on this event, you asked why “people” are and I gave my best guess as to why it keeps coming up. It also could be that people just like to do things they’re told not to do
hark@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
Yeah, that’s fair.