Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.com to A Boring Dystopia@lemmy.world · 8 days agoLabour knew Palestine Action posed no violent threat, but banned it anyway amid lobby pressurewww.thecanary.coexternal-linkmessage-square7linkfedilinkarrow-up1150arrow-down13file-textcross-posted to: palestine@lemmy.mluk_politics@feddit.uk
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minus-squareIlovethebomb@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up1arrow-down2·7 days agoThat was, in hindsight, not a wise thing to do I think. Definitely gave the UK government an excuse to do something they wanted to do anyway.
minus-squareeatCasserole@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·edit-26 days agoBy that logic, the wisest thing to do is stay home and write strongly worded letters…which will accomplish absolutely nothing. If you want to affect any sort of real change, it’s often the case that things get worse before they get better; some sacrifices have to be made.
minus-squareNoneOfUrBusiness@fedia.iolinkfedilinkarrow-up3·7 days agoBut it also got people really mad about it, so there’s a trade-off there. Whether it’s worth it I have no idea, but there is a logic to it.
That was, in hindsight, not a wise thing to do I think. Definitely gave the UK government an excuse to do something they wanted to do anyway.
By that logic, the wisest thing to do is stay home and write strongly worded letters…which will accomplish absolutely nothing.
If you want to affect any sort of real change, it’s often the case that things get worse before they get better; some sacrifices have to be made.
But it also got people really mad about it, so there’s a trade-off there. Whether it’s worth it I have no idea, but there is a logic to it.