Let's talk about "unalienable rights of free expression and peaceful assembly."
https://x.com/nxt888/status/2062586751831699714
Let's talk about "unalienable rights of free expression and peaceful assembly."
In 2023 and 2024, pro-Palestinian protests were banned, dispersed, or criminalized in Germany, France, the United Kingdom, and across multiple American university campuses.
Students were arrested. Professors lost jobs. People were fired for social media posts.
In Germany, even displaying a watermelon emoji was treated as a potential criminal offense in some contexts.
This happened in the Western democracies that hold Tiananmen as a symbol of the cost of suppressing free expression.
The same governments posting Tiananmen commemorations were simultaneously deploying riot police against students holding vigils for children being killed in real time.
You can hold both of these things as wrong simultaneously.
Or you can keep posting about unalienable rights while your governments demonstrate, in the present tense, exactly which populations those rights are designed to protect.
posted by Satish Sharma at
02:40
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