Edited later to add:
The original press release seems to be gone now, but here is what is claimed to be the revised release, and an article on the same topic.
https://www1.wdr.de/nachrichten/polizei-dortmund-greta-gewaltbereit-100.html
https://www.yahoo.com/news/german-politician-calls-greta-thunberg-102611513.html
The reason you don’t hear about Greta anymore is because she didn’t let her conscience stop at climate change. She’s a left wing activist fighting for social justice in all things.
The rich will mold her image in history the same way they did for MLK, leaving out all the aspects of her politics that make them squirm.
Conscience*
Lol, early morning swipe typing.
The thing than never fails to make me laugh are “fuck greta” stickers on cars or bikes. Especially if it’s a little VW golf.
Same reason we immortalized the child version of Helen Keller. Though she lived to 87.
Or the Diary of Ann Frank. Easier to control the narrative around children than to discuss the politics of grown adults.
Well, she was murdered in the Holocaust a year after she wrote. So it makes sense that’s how we remember her. We don’t know what you may have been like as an adult. She was a cool ass kid, facing annihilation by total evil.
No wonder they teach it in schools.
Could you elaborate?
I never realized that, and it is kind of messed up. Although I suppose the main thing that happened for her happened as a child, the story of how she came to understand that words had meaning, starting with “water.” I suppose I don’t hardly know anything about the rest of her life.
Happily, when Helen was a young woman she assumed blindness to be a misfortune. A cruel test from God that nobody could control. Then she was appointed to a body that advocated for the affairs of the blind. And was faced with the stark reality that much of the blindness in the world was caused by people. Industrial accidents and chemical exposures often caused by the greed and selfishness of the owning class and the minimal protection afforded to citizens who didn’t merit the governments protection. So she joined the wobblies, the IWW.
From which she soon became one of the most radical members.
In her own words from an interview with Barbara Bindley with the New York tribune, 1915
“What are you committed to - education or revolution?”
“Revolution.” She answered decisively. “We can’t have education without revolution. We have tried peace education for 1900 years and it has failed. Let us try revolution and see what it will do now.”
“I am not for peace at all hazards. I regret this war, but I never regretted the blood of the thousands spilled during the French Revolution. And the workers are learning how to stand alone. They are learning a lesson they will apply to their own good out in the trenches. Generals testify to the splendid initiative the workers in the trenches take. If they can do that for their masters you can be sure they will do that for themselves when they have taken matters into their own hands.”
“Don’t forget the workers are getting their discipline in the trenches,” Miss Keller continued. “They are acquiring the will to combat.”
And thus her statue
High quality post. Thanks.
I assume they’re referring to her being an outspoken socialist as an adult.
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Could you elaborate what you mean by that?
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No. They’re not. She’s not. But go ahead and keep getting your news from the bullshit factories.
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What’s your opinion on the current multiple military actions in Palestine and Lebanon? I think that might shed some light on your current bias.
They’re very pro Israel fyi
rofl
Yes. Greta is well known for her violent tendency to be limply carried away by police from protests where she stands there…violently. have you seen the graphic photos of police carrying her away? It’s a wonder they survive the encounter.
Yeah it’s kinda what I was thinking. That lady and her terrorism have gone too far!
Attacking our batons with your shoulder blades and our pepper spray with your faces.
You said it. Shoulder BLADES
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The news in Germany is also shockingly biased. Obviously things like the Bild were going to be, but even on more mainstream news, you don’t hear about Palestinian casualties, nor do you hear interviews with Palestinians or Israelis against of the war (at most you get an Israeli who’s slightly critical of methods, but still thinks Israel should be actively defending itself). If you’re a German who doesn’t look at international sources for news, it would be very strange not to support Israel, based on what you’re hearing. It’s infuriating, but it’s also difficult to change. I don’t know what it would take for the German media to stop supporting them.
A lot of Germans still remember the 1972 Summer Olympics massacre in Munich and the aftermath like the plane hijack to free the captured perpetrators and are therefore biased against Palestinians, suspecting a lot of violent people among them. It’s not a good environment to protest.
German here: if you take peaceful demonstration as an option away from people, they are left with two options: being resigned or non-peaceful demonstration. The German stance to hinder peaceful demonstration against the Israeli atrocities is stupid and labeling Greta Thunberg as primed for violence is beyond stupid. And the majority of Germans has no active memory of the 72 Olympics incident.
I’m guessing they’re feeling guilty for the holocaust and as an apology, they’re letting the jews in Israel do one of their own.
As a German: Our government, as an apology, is letting the Israeli government do a genocide of their own. You were so close, and then you took the anti-semitic turn by referring to “the jews” :(
However, also as a German: While I do absolutely wish Israel was forced to stop the atrocities they commit, and pay reparations, I believe that - given our specific history with the state of Israel and what Germans did to the Jewish population of Europe just ~80 years ago, there are plenty of states in the world that are better candidates to take an aggressive political stance towards Israel, before Germany does.
Some of us are still very much committed to absolutely defending the absolute right of Israel to exist as a state, while also (albeit sadly less of us) there are people who at the same time see the war crimes committed by the Israeli army and secret services against civilian populations of Gaza & Lebanon.
But the German government can not just take the side of Palestinians here, not because the current Israeli administration does not belong in jail, but because there are those who will - should the pendulum swing to the other side again - ask for revenge / war on Israel / commit crimes against Israeli civilians. Or, as we already see, use the violence in the middle east to justify hate crimes against Israelis or Jewish people in other countries.
Those who do the killing are evil on both sides, and those who do the suffering and dying are mostly not the same group of people - neither in Israel, nor in Gaza or Lebanon.
Long story short - Germany is stuck between a rock and a hard place in this, and it is MUCH easier for virtually any other country in the world to speak on behalf of the Palestinians. Doesn’t mean we shouldn’t speak out, but I can understand why German politicians are very carefully weighing their options on this.
The concern is legitimate, but it falls into the same “never again - to us” pit Israel fell into. Another potential framing one could take of the issue - one I feel is more helpful - would go something like: 80 years ago, the world got together to help save Germany from itself, and it’s time to return the favor, hopefully before it gets completely out of hand like last time.
It’d be a good take on this, but there are still too many people in the world that fall for hypocrisy when one side is lying through their teeth and the other is calling out the bullshit and saying things as they are. Too many people will side with the liars who would claim that Israel is acting in self-defense and fighting “terrorists”.
Edit: I had to reword a few sentences (previous and next), because it seemed as if I was talking about liars on the one hand, and nazi parties on the other, as if they weren’t one and the same - that is absolutely not what I meant, I just reworded too much and then read it myself and thought “oh damn”.
I admit that the higher risk in Germany right now is the anti-“brown people”, putin-loving piece of shit nazi party (AfD, in case you were wondering, but CDU/CSU comes close), and not any anti-semitic party. So I guess calling out Israeli war crimes wouldn’t come with an immediate risk of a rise in anti-semitism.
I guess that’s also the problem here. Palestinians are seen as “brown people” and the post 2001 hate-filled news escalation has deepened the deeply ingrained racism in many parts of European societies. So among our political parties (and I don’t see a difference from most European countries), none is really vocal about the crimes against humanity being committed in Gaza and Lebanon. And previously Syria. And Iraq. And Afghanistan. And before that Iran. Notice a pattern?
Israel doesn’t have a right to exist. Religion based countries will always resort to fighting anyone that doesn’t conform to their flavor of religion.
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It’s sad, but also makes me really angry, that “pro Palestine” and “supporting Israel” are now seen as polar opposites.
Also, the ongoing war is in no way connected to the 1940’s Holocaust, apart from the obvious “they’re both unspeakably horrible”.The holocaust led to more jews going to the holy land which lead to the creation of the state of Israel, which since its inception has had expelling the Palestinians as its main goal. Palestinians rightfully so started resisting through different groups which has lead to Israel doubling down on its genocidal motives leading to today. They are connected just not as obviously as other events.
Israel was primed to be created regardless of the holocaust
Israel cannot exist as a concept if you support Palestinians right to exist. They’re fundamentally incompatible.
Imagine declaring violent someone for their demonstrations against a genocide
The press release has since been updated and a correction issued:
https://www.presseportal.de/blaulicht/pm/4971/5882017
The assembly leader of the Palestine protest camp informed the Dortmund police today that Ms. Greta Thunberg wanted to visit the assembly in Emil-Figge-Straße. Following an examination by Dortmund Police Headquarters, the latter issued an order banning the camp.
The Dortmund police carried out a risk assessment for the assembly. The announced visit by Ms. Thunberg led to the conclusion that there would be more people at the venue than stated in the assembly registration. The time frame specified in the assembly confirmation would also have been exceeded. The recent events in connection with Thunberg were taken into account in the assessment. After intensive examination as part of a risk assessment, the Dortmund police headquarters ordered the ban and the associated dissolution of the assembly.
The assembly leader announced on site that the assembly had ended and arranged for the camp to be dismantled.
Don’t post pictures of text. Copy and paste the text and cite the source
Eh, it’s a screenshot of social media…
Would 100% be nice to have a link of the article in the tweet’s screenshot, but it doesn’t seem like enough to remove the post.
I found the website, but it’s in German, and I dont sprechen enough Deutsch to find a “translate” option, so here’s an English source.
https://www.dw.com/en/greta-thunberg-says-germany-silencing-pro-palestinian-cause/a-70443304
If you’re asking for the text of the tweet to be copied pasted to be inclusive for the seeing impaired, that’s a good idea but not really standard, so feel free to type it out yourself to assist.
Its definitely standard (literally read the w3c standards) and we should be temp banning users who post screenshots of text without copying and pasting the text
literally read the w3c standards
This?
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Wide_Web_Consortium
I’m legitimately not sure what you’re talking about…
If it’s that. I still dont understand how you think that applies or why Lemmy needs to follow that organizations recommendations.
They seem to also want html5 to have DRM…
That’s definitely not happening.
I’m all for accessibility though. So by all means provide the caption, if you just want to keep arguing that just this one post you don’t like should be removed because you disagree with it for other reasons. We’re not going to do that
Hey I apologize, was almost literally on the way out the door to take a family member to the ER when I saw that and hit the crosspost button. Am only home a few minutes now, but will add the text later when I’m going to be home awhile. Apologies!
You’re good
If it was just a screenshot of the article it would have been removed, but a screenshot of a tweet that already has a screenshot of the article is grey enough I didn’t remove it
Not sure why that other person choose this specific post to demand all text in a picture is typed out, it’s a good idea for accessibility tho so go for it if you want. But its not like every post has to have it
You’re good
Thanks! I did at least rather lazily added more info to the body of OP. I’ll take care to be fully compliant in the future.
Link is more important than the text
Which standard are you referring too?
I get where they’re coming from since you could consider her voice as a weapon. Now sit down and shut the fuck up, the kids are talking. They gotta unshit this goddamn world since everyone before either stopped trying or advocated to make things worse.
Mossad’s Epstein files must be wild.
She does get a bit tasty with the old knuckle dusters.
She gonna get the Julian Asange treatment
Well they have jumped the shark now.
Germans? No…
I could take her
lol
You’d never expect this from Germany, of all places.
Unfortunately, as a German citizen, that is exactly what you would expect. In hardly any other country is the Israel lobby as strong as in Germany. In Germany, it is very easy for the supporters of the Netanyahu-regime, because the strategic accusations of anti-Semitism against anyone who even mildly criticizes the inhumane actions of the Israeli government weigh all the more heavily here. Regardless of whether it is legitimate criticism of a state - that doesn’t matter at all here, nor does it seem to matter how many international laws Israel may break or how many innocent lifes the IDF may take in order to pursue the inherently racist Zionist ideology this State stands for in recent days.
It makes sense that Israel would use Germany’s past to guilt-trip it into doing whatever it wants.
Then you don’t know present day Germany 🙁
Greta is an absolute freak.
Her basic decency, which I have to assume is some kind of random genetic mutation, risks putting our species in a forgivable light.
Not cool Greta. You could at least throw some trash on the ground or something to fit in.
