this post was submitted on 15 Apr 2025
35 points (94.9% liked)
Crazy Fucking Videos
7059 readers
98 users here now
Dive into the World of Insane Videos!
Rules
- No hate speech of any kind.
- Content warnings are required in post titles where applicable. Example: [CW: Injury]
- Use your best judgement and mark NSFW posts as such.
founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
view the rest of the comments
This isn't about not being peaceful, this is about behaving like football hooligans and not about spraying some graffiti. The money spent on replacing the stuff they break is enough to build multiple schools and hospitals in Gaza. There are loads of other protests in the Netherlands and they aren't all peaceful but they are not like this. This is not your regular student protest either, there have been multiple across the country and stuff broke there too but some of the people who went in here went to break things. Even Tesla dealerships aren't taking this much damage. It's not even looting for their personal benefit, it's just breaking things to release their anger.
It’s breaking things that gets the attention of the rich. They care about things more than people.
You claim the damages could have been used to fund hospitals and schools. But it won’t be used that way until protests have changed minds.
Break all their shit, over and over again.
They are not breaking this of the rich, they are breaking things of a university which is funded with public taxpayers money in the Netherlands. The rich are much better at avoiding paying taxes than the rest of the people.
If their goal was to change the minds of people that matter they would go demolish things in government buildings (which doesn't settle in Amsterdam) or the houses of politicians, maybe even fight the police or something.
The people who did the all the damage here are not the same people who organised the protests. This damage is done by people who are angry and act like hooligans who's team just lost a match. They might be on the same side as the protesters, but they are not helping the people in Gaza either because they're giving far-right politicians excuses to spill their racist bullshit about how they shouldn't support Islamic people because they are violent by nature.
I don't think you understand what people you are defending here.
First off, y’all gotta stop downvoting folks who are having a conversation in good faith.
In response to your comment: I used to think exactly like this, marching in the BLM protests in Seattle and watching looters with selfish motives. It was frustrating and felt like it was undercutting the message among moderates. The thing is, moderates were not going to care about the important issues regardless, so I’m not sure why we’d cater to them.
I think it’s a fair stance to take when the protests don’t have life and death stakes. But people are being murdered and if the fastest way to get the public to pay attention is to break stuff, well, people are more important than things, every time.