Violence erupted at the University of California, Los Angeles after pro-Israeli counter-demonstrators attacked a pro-Palestinian campus encampment. Bubbling tensions on the campus boiled over following the alleged breach of a “buffer zone” between the rival groups.

  • CarbonatedPastaSauce@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    That’s what 80 years of cultural righteousness gets you. You start to think you can do no wrong.

    Cue up the “I learned it from you” meme because the USA showed Israel how it’s done.

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      2 months ago

      It’s just plain old Fascism.

      Etnic/nationalistic/cultural righteousness (aka nationalistic racism) is one of the foundational blocks of it along with violence.

      Unlike Europe, Israel hasn’t realy evolved in social and political terms from the kind of thinking so prevalent in the early XX century.