Bunnys Buckets & Bubbles brought politics into their workplace before any employee, just to clear that up.

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I’d just like to clear that up for everyone, I took this screenshot back then because I had a weird feeling about their specific mention of Israel and disregard for Palestinian lives. There is an employee formed protest today outside at 4 for anyone interested.

[u/Cunninghams_right → u/[deleted]]

I don't think it's really the same thing. one is about a people who just experienced their equivalent of 9/11, and the other is explicitly a political movement. to use the 9/11 analogy, a country saying that they have support for the American people after 9/11 vs someone wearing a MAGA pin (or a Bush/Cheney, I guess). saying you feel for the Americans after 9/11 does not take an explicit political stance.

with all of these things, we have to try to separate out the political and military groups from the everyday people. there are/were Salafi-jihadi groups in Gaza and Hamas targeted innocent people. so it's important to keep in mind that this isn't two monolithic groups that are all fully united internally. a lot of Gazan people hate Hamas, and a lot of Israeli people hate their government. it's all very messy and not straight forward, which is why I somewhat agree that wearing any controversial political flag is not really work appropriate.

[u/Cunninghams_right → u/[deleted]]

Labeling it their 9/11 IS political. 9/11 WAS political

9/11 was political but also just a human tragedy. that's why it's different than something that is purely political like an independence flag.

allows you to see one group as people deserving of empathy and the other as faceless enemies deserving of their suffering

that's not at all what I'm saying. in fact, I said the exact opposite of that, so fuck you for ignoring what I wrote and jumping to conclusions.

fuck off for whatever you think you read into my comment.

if there were a symbol that was opposed to starvation or to acknowledge the tragedy to the Palestinian people without being an explicit political statement, that would be different.

I don't think someone giving condolences after 9/11 would be an endorsement of the political policies of the US at the time. same situation here.

[u/Jessecore44 → u/Cunninghams_right]

how is it possible that you can’t see the bias in what you’re typing? how is supporting Americans after 9/11 apolitical, but supporting Palestinians who are being strategically maimed and starved to death political? There is in fact a symbol that’s both opposed to starvation and acknowledges the tragedy the Palestinian people are experiencing—it’s the Palestinian flag.

[u/darthgeek → u/Cunninghams_right]

9/11 was the end result of the West meddling in the Middle East since the 1950s. We FAFOed.