I stand with Palestine, and the rare spaces our public can spend time and educate themselves. Genocide is depressing. Hurting books makes me sad.
Source: Portland State in midst of expensive, ‘marathon’ race to repair damaged library before fall classes begin
PS: we appreciate the smartass answers as well for much-needed comic relief
Somehow, this made me care about Palestine just a little bit less.
As said in other comments, perhaps that is the point.
Depends on the library…
https://aspace.library.jhu.edu/repositories/3/resources/1419
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Too much time in an echo chamber with a hint of anti-semitism
I appreciate the spirit, but people who read books are probably the wrong demographic to aim this kind of messaging at.
Damn, that’s a very elegant way to put it
How do we know this isn’t a false flag from the far right to make it seem us against the genocide look bad?
Could be, but I don’t think it really matters honestly. The message is still righteous, the books are still readable, no one was hurt. So it’s whatever.
The right is underfunding libraries across the country (in the US), attacks like this would or do already further stress libraries when they’re already financially vulnerable. This does have a huge impact on this particular library.
And vandalizing the libraries is just vandalizing the happy place for the people who already agree with you.
Or, in shorter terms: “Just being an asshole”
This is probably mostly laziness. Organizing a march is hard and requires people organizing skills. Spray painting some books takes only one or two people.
If anything, this just emphasizes how small this group is and how bad they are at organization. It’s simple: get a lot of people who agree with you and march to the capitol. That’s all you need to do but it’s hard.
They might not have been the smartest protesters out there
Can rocks or doornails protest
If so that’s still a maybe
They have their heart in the right place, even if their brains are not
Surely. Almost nobody likes dead kids.
“Almost”
Well, vandalising libraries with left-leaning messages might be the only way certain people will actually care about defending libraries, so there’s that benefit. Sadly, those people will only help by donating books written by convicted con-artists and conspiracy nuts.
Please tell me someone can clean up the pillar grafitti. They misspelt Freedom and it hurts to see such an error in a library.
They didn’t mispell freedom. They correctly spelled freedoon. Which isn’t a word. But I like to look at things in a positive light.
I like to think half of the last letter is cut off and it’s “free doom,” which is, disgustingly, what kids in Palestine are getting.
Great point & goood eyye
Did they seriously write “murder” in the dictionary? I could see a tenuous connection if it was a book about the history of Israel but the dictionary? Dumb.
Lemmy Bureau of Investigation, is this the page with “genocide” on it?
Might not have had highlighters on ‘em
Mur Mur der der
Mur der
Mur cler
Nary an original thought in my head
Nope! The tag on the right says QRS. Maybe they thought it was qenocide? No wonder they struggled finding it.
Qenocide!!
It’s His next message!
Assuming it’s a single volume dictionary, probably not. It looks a lot later than g. If I had to guess, I’d say it’s on the page with murder.
WORDS ARE MURDER!!! See? I killed you with WORDS!!!
/s
Copyright violations
It’s true what they say, libraries really never would be allowed to exist if the concept launched today…
But think of the potential short-term profits and how there totally wouldn’t be massive long-term detriment to industry.
The dickheads accomplished peace by spray painting a library
My man just went for as many books as possible.
Some people
Edit: To answer the question, maybe this was one of those libraries holding pornographic filth?
butt and fart
NSFW next time pls
Hey don’t say I didn’t warn you, it says “pornographic filth” right there
Because library patrons are the ones setting military policy ofc… Glad the message is reaching the right people.
Actually, I think he’s trying to reach the left people…
The cops already kicked the protestors out a few weeks ago. I think these are the aftermath photos.
Kicked out at the beginning of May. Look how bad it was then:
Maybe the university administrators were Hamas
Make them pay $750,000, and that’s $750k they can’t spend on
scholarshipsmore HamasSomeone call Tim Misney! He’ll make em pay!!!
…this joke would have killed over on /r/Cleveland. I really wish Lemmy had an active Lemmy presense, so we could all talk about how much the George family is filth, and how shitty Melt and Barrio have become. BUT WE ALL STILL CRAVE THE HUNGER!!! ALL HAIL ROMANBURGER!!!
See? Nothing. Nobody knows what I’m talking about. Probably think we all still talk about Drew Carry…
The man needs no introduction, only eyebrows.
You KNOW what I do…
As a Portland resident, I will just say our heart is always into it, but our brains not so much. I don’t know what the message was meant to convey by vandalizing a library. Usually the protests start of well intentioned, but always break down as bad actors and grifters work their way in to cause trouble because they find entertainment in doing so.
Yes to the hearts
Hmm reminds me, I didn’t check how many of those arrested were students
As another Portland resident, FUCK THE PEOPLE WHO DID THIS. This is NOT who we are, what the fuck.
It only contains copies of 50 Shades of Gray and Ayn Rand
I mean its not like they bombed an aid convoy.
Also, you are now here, talking about it, so it worked.
If I went and shot someone in the name of Gaza awareness, and painted these messages on the sidewalk using their blood, that would be getting talked about, too. Point being, there’s effective forms of protest that we still shouldn’t be using.
Did they shoot someone or are you trying to set up a false premise.
I’m responding to your implication that actions in protest that get people talking about the issue are inherently valuable and worth taking. To make the point that that is not the case, I am using an extreme example to demonstrate a scenario where your statement is (I hope) objectively false.
I think I clearly stated my counter-point, which is that just because we’re talking about it doesn’t mean it is an effective or worthwhile form of protest to be engaged in.
I’m not really sure where you’re confused here.
Theirs no confusion here other than that which you were trying to make with your statement.
I’m just pointing it out so that its clear to others what you are doing: a rhetorical bait and switch.
I see next to zero discussion about Gaza here.
People seem to be arguing about whether vandalizing libraries is good or bad. It’s bad, for the record.
Of course that’s only failure if your goal is for people to talk about the thing you’re supposed to care about. If your goal happens to be to get people to talk about you, screw Gaza or anybody else… well, then yeah, mission accomplished. We can all go home now.
We’re talking about those mindless people who riined the library. Happy it worked as intended.
These clowns are more outraged over books than lives lost.
You’re right. Everyone knows that you can only be mad about one thing at a time. Right? Because the world is fully black and white?
Jesus fucking christ you’re an idiot.
I just went through 7 months of your post history, you’ve commented more in this thread acting outraged about a library than the one time you posted in a Gaza thread and called them worse than North Korea.
Please tell me how mad you are about two things, because I can’t see your anger towards what Israel is doing.
Oh wow, you realy are an idiot.
Madness obviously is measured in commands per month. It’s not like you have no clue who that person is, what they are doing and saying.
Your only judging them by not commenting on a topic enough.
They’re just idiots complicit in the system. They’d rather have genocide if it comes wearing the right party colors.
They don’t truly believe in protest or freedom of speech, but they themselves are also functionally worthless in this regard.
Their hand wringing can and should be ignored.
Biden is overseeing the slaughter of children in Gaza right now and these people are mad about books. If you are focused on some minor damage to books and not the point the protestor was making, you are the problem.
Ah yes, the classic “you can only be upset about one thing at a time”!
If you’re upset I pissed on the floor instead of in the toilet while Biden is complicit with genocide you’re part of the problem!
Sorry boss, I can’t care about my job because of Palestine!
How dare you pull me over for going 80mph in a school zone, pig! Don’t you know what Israel is doing?
How could you possibly expect me to care about something so insignifIcant as wiping? Don’t you know that children are dying?
Send me your address and I’ll come spraypaint your house. If you don’t, you’re complicit in the system and you like genocide.
You seem mad bro.
U mad?
I can’t believe you would rather let people die than let your house get spray painted. Monster.
Weird how Biden is committing a genocide while trying to get both sides to agree to a ceasefire.
Yeah sure he is.
He doesn’t need a ceasefire. He can just stop withhold financial support to Israel and all of this madness ends.
He doesn’t care. He only cares that you believe he gives a shit about a ceasefire.
Whoa, if Joe Biden stops giving Israel money then Hamas will surrender and give up all the hostages???
Alternately, maybe it’s the case that doing something bad to bring attention to another bad thing isn’t okay just because the thing you’re trying to bring attention to is worse.
I actually support the protests where they’re throwing soup on paintings or whatever. Those paintings don’t really matter, but some people sure think they do, and it’s effective to get a dialog going. Libraries are a public good, one of the few we really have left. It’s like ransacking a food bank to draw attention to starving people in Gaza; it’s not helping the cause they ostensibly care about, but it is hurting others.
How about I spray “Free Palestine” into your fucking mouth? You wouldn’t mind right? I’m sure you’d be talking about that.
I love how much it tells us that your this mad about even the idea that you could be inconvenienced or annoyed by a protestor.
It tells us so much about you than you’ll ever be able to say.
I just had this conversation about throwing soup on paintings to protest ahh . . (checks notes) oh - “Big Oil”.
Apparently I’m a grade a moron for not knowing that’s an excellent way to spread an important message and not at all a shitheaded everything-i-do-must-be-filmed idiot act which only serves to weaken legitimate efforts.
Who knew.
Totally different situations imo
