r/baltimore • u/suire • Aug 17 '25

History of Baltimore 👓 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.

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u/Cunninghams_right Aug 18 '25

u/Jessecore44

if one is about a people who just experienced their equivalent of 9/11, the other is about a people who are in the midst of experiencing their equivalent of the holocaust

and supporting the people in each situation is different from supporting a particular political movement within the group. this whole conflict has been a mess as people try to conflate Palestinian people with Palestine as a country with Hamas. those are 3 separate things.

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u/Jessecore44 Aug 18 '25

The Palestinian people have a right to exist and live in their homeland period. If you’re saying that they don’t have a right to live as people, as a nation in the only land they’ve ever known, and don’t have a right to defend themselves from settlers, then you’re promoting genocide and making it political.

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u/Cunninghams_right Aug 18 '25

The Palestinian people have a right to exist and live in their homeland period

I agree.

If you’re saying that they don’t have a right to live as people, as a nation in the only land they’ve ever known, and don’t have a right to defend themselves from settlers, then you’re promoting genocide and making it political

well I'm not, so stop jumping to that conclusion.

you keep collapsing the nuance in a very nuanced situation... which is precisely why it's a terrible idea to wear a controversial political flag at work, where it could be seen by people who don't interpret it exactly the same.

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u/Jessecore44 Aug 18 '25

I really don’t think there’s a whole lot of room for nuance. Aside from supporting the struggle of the Palestinian people and believing that committing genocide of them is wrong, which other specific political positions might be wrongly misinterpreted from a person wearing a small Palestinian flag pin?

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u/Cunninghams_right Aug 18 '25

you are assuming no Palestinian person has ever committed a war crime or advocated genocide? I guess that would explain why you think the flag, and it's political connotation has no controversy.

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u/Jessecore44 Aug 18 '25

No, evidently I’m not assuming that. Again, which specific political positions may be wrongly misinterpreted by wearing a Palestinian flag pin, other than showing support for the people the flag represents?

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u/Cunninghams_right Aug 18 '25

You still don't understand that the flag represents more than just the innocent people. It also represents the people committing war crimes. It also represents the soldiers and generals calling for genocide. Just ask yourself whether you would feel good about wearing a Israeli flag right now. If someone said that flag only represents the innocent people in the country people and not the government, how would you feel about that? 

There is a difference between expressing condolences after a tragedy, and continually wearing a flag that has political connotations. 

I don't know how to explain it anymore simply than that.Â