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
Feels like a Zionist attempt at framing anti-genociders as childish and misguided.
Right? I’m too jaded. Portland anarchists are kinda cringe sometimes, that seems maybe more plausible than a Jewish street gang false flagging it.
A combination of not having the courage to vandalize a place that would make more sense but where you may encounter resistance, combined with a joy of punching down on people/institutions I guess?
I like this answer the best.
…The Portland State Univerity’s Library?
The safest possible place with the least possible chance to reach a critical audience for this shit.
seems like mental illness
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.
Great point & goood eyye
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.
They are doing it for their justice, not Gaza.
I appreciate the spirit, but people who read books are probably the wrong demographic to aim this kind of messaging at.
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”
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.
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
The dickheads accomplished peace by spray painting a library
“Protests” like this are the “it was just a prank bro” of activism.
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.
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.
WORDS ARE MURDER!!! See? I killed you with WORDS!!!
/s
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.
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…
With all the people talking about how the books in this one library have been destroyed, when Israel has completely razed numerous universities, hospitals and libraries. Lives and information that has been burned from the face of the earth. This level of damage pales in comparison to the damage caused by Israel in Gaza.
If some spray paint in an American library causes you to clutch pearls but the literal bombing and razing of libraries in Gaza doesn’t get this level of response, you seriously have some inverted priorities.
This kind of action is more likely to make people reject the message.
You’re right that this doesn’t compare to the death and destruction in Gaza, but that doesn’t make it productive or helpful.
I think it makes sense to care more about problems that are solvable. If anyone out there has a realistic plan to reduce the suffering of the people of Gaza in any sort of lasting manner, I’ve yet to hear it.
But people spray painting the library? Yeah that can be solved. Report them to the police, take pictures. No tanks necessary.
Those are people that just want to destroy.
The “cause” is just a convenient way for them to not feel guilty.
One of the images that has haunted me for years was a big protest over an important event that warranted a serious discussion and protest. But in the middle of it, someone broke into a nearby restaurant and made off with an entire cheesecake. Broad daylight, right in front of news cameras, their pale-ass face giving no fucks in the world.
Fucking opportunists. They used to come every year and trash parts of the city during protests. Whenever they’d get arrested, they’d always be from neighboring states, never locals. It generates a massive amount of ill-will and casts legitimate protests in a bad light.
Regardless of outcome, though, the most important thing we can all do is vote. Get everyone you can to actually turn out for local elections, state/province/territory elections, and national elections. Protesting is another tool between voting.
