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At least one person was actually arrested for wearing this: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/aug/18/protester-arrested-wearing-plasticine-action-t-shirt-palestine-gaza-protest
At least the cop wasn’t a total ass about it.
I think the UK government is being incredibly stupid and fascist lately with shit like this.
Hey, if it was the US, due would be chewing on concrete with 3 or 4 'roided up cops yelling: "stop resisting!" while kneeling in his neck. I'm not saying the fascism shown here is cute but at least it isn't so comically over-the-top as it is on this side of the pond.
Yes it’s a less aggressive form but it’s far more insidious because people are less likely to resist it.
Hearing a cop admitting wrong feels like a fantasy in the US
Yeah in the US, they would have beat the shit out of him for daring to mock them with a shirt. Then arrest him for resisting.
The arrest would be the embarrassing part either way. You cannot define terrorism in a way that does not make it a matter of perspective.
Yes you can. Problem for governments is that they usually are terrorists by the typical definitions of using violence to further political goals.
In particular the UK is heavily involved in the terror genocide against Gaza as it facilitates arms transfers from the US to Israel and runs spy flights over Gaza to help the Israelis find civilians to murder. They recently went to pay American contractors with British tax money to hide the fact that they continue their direct intelligence support to the genocide.
I can't help but notice you did not provide a definition of terrorism that is not based on perspective.
Unless you want to go down the road of saying that every word and thereby every definition is a matter of perspective, i fail to see how this definition is "based on perspective".
Ok America every way after WW2 has been to further economic interests in the area. Israel itself is formed on the back of horrific terrorism and outright murders.
So can a terrorist nation define another as a terrorist? As such could that definition not apply to literally every nation in the eyes of another? The word terrorist is useless, sandwich tosser terrorist, sandal thrower terrorist. It's meaningless.
I agree that the use by states is hypocritical and the designation currently is meaningless.
But the definition in itself is relevant imo. to call out states when they engage in terror, which many, but not all, do.
Sort of, he was arrested and then de-arrested, and then began selling the shirt online.