(07-28-2025, 09:34 AM)Squid Wrote:(07-28-2025, 07:27 AM)Lurker#3 Wrote: I was knocking around Westminster/the strand/Trafalgar square where it was all going on last weekend. There was more than a minority there invoking hatred and pushing quite a disturbing narrative. Lots of death to Jews being chanted. Lots of gazebos trying to convert people to islam when they were just trying to show support for dying kids.
It's not always the righteous, moral thing that people try and make out and get outraged when there arrests. Of course there were thousands protesting peacefully and in good taste, but even they got whipped up a few times.
One of those things is (rightfully) illegal and the other happens on Birmingham New Street every day, so I'm not sure why you are conflating the two.
I am not conflating them, Squid. They were 2 very different points. But both groups were hijacking the moment and protest for their own agendas. I hate anybody that does that in any walk of life let alone when it's something as serious and as upsetting as non combatants being killed on a daily basis in a heart breaking war.