How is supporting a victim of war crimes ‘hate speech’?
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ALoafOfBread@lemmy.ml 1 month agoThey aren’t saying anything. The UK criminalized pro-Palestinian slogans in public. Namely the “Support Palestine Action” slogan. This guy has a shirt that says “Support Plasticene Action” which, notably, does not reference Palestine at all though the words have an aesthetic similarity to the Palestine slogan. So the pigs are trying to see if they can arrest him for hate speech or not.
arin@lemmy.world 1 month ago
IndustryStandard@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Not hate speech. Terrorism. Punishable by up to 14 years in prison.
arin@lemmy.world 1 month ago
How is showing sympathy to victims of genocide considered terrorism?
Kolanaki@pawb.social 1 month ago
Because the world has totally gone to shit.
echodot@feddit.uk 1 month ago
Technically it isn’t. You can support victims of genocides as much as you like you just can’t do it while associating yourself with a particular organisation.
Not that that makes it much better.
It’s all going to the High Court, which is almost certainly going to deem this to be illegal and the arrests expunged. It’s just in the meantime the idiots have got over excited and think they’ve won and are doing stuff like this.
ALoafOfBread@lemmy.ml 1 month ago
Because Fascism doesn’t care about truth or reason
AlDente@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
This is close, but it is specifically in regards to a group called Palestinian Action, not Palestine or Palestinian people in general. The British government declared the group Palestine Action a terrorist group, and there is a preexisting law from 2000 which makes it illegal to support ‘terrorist groups’.
Of course the whole thing is ridiculous (Palestinian Action has never even hurt anyone), and many people have been publicly supporting Palestinian Action in protest. Over 500 people were arrested at a protest on the 10th.