The struggle of the 1960s against racism in the United States cannot be compared with the missing ranges. The goals are too different.
Inch Public debates suffer from an unacceptable equation: the current free pale demonstrations are increasingly compared with the legendary demonstrations of the civil rights of the 1960s in the United States. However, this analogy is historically inaccurate and deeply problematic.
The movement for civil rights of the 1960s fought with racism and for the equality and dignity of all citizens – undoubtedly, the moral struggle for inclusion and justice. On the contrary, demonstrations of the movement of free Palestine in Stark. In public articulation, their rhetoric and symbolism cross the border with naked hatred of Jews. The existence of the state sometimes opens here.
Neither demonstrators nor their lawyers in negotiations increase the requirements for freedom aimed at Hamas. The lack of elections under Hamas for almost 20 years and the difficult situation of women or the LGBTK+community is intentionally ignored. At the propriet rallies, you are in vain await sympathy for more than thousands of Hamas victims on October 7. Instead, it is said about “resistance at all costs.”
Michaela Dudley
Born in 1961 in the shadow of a statue of freedom, Berliner with African American roots, a observer, artist-cabaret, a speaker and lawyer (Juris Dr., US). Her book “Leave Relations: an essay on racism”, published in 2022 in Grunernn-Verlag, succeeds as a lyrical guide for anti-radiism and provides background for further discrimination.
But even supposedly “more harmless” actions of this movement cause damage. Think about the sailing trip Greta Tunberg. And the last, but no less important: an unsuccessful global march in gas, which was heard by the Egyptian wall, symbolized the performive solidarity of pure.
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Such actions undermine the seriousness of “their own” care, looking up to the scene for white saviors who howl and grind to the teeth in a kind of soap of reality with truth and their own naivety. This contrasts sharply since 1964, as activists from the KU -KLUX clan, the undifferentiated equation was ridiculed for the achievements of civil rights.
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