I struggle to understand how criminal damage and attacking people’s history is peace-making.<\/p>\n
I’ve just had a post through on the Networking for Peace mailing list: “Germany : Tear This Down – Eliminate Colonialism Now<\/em>” which links to a site called TearThisDown.com (active link not provided on purpose). It provides a map of street names, monuments, stations and other public items named after people they disapprove of and demanding ‘TEAR DOWN THIS SHIT<\/em>‘. They call for such monuments to be damaged, destroyed and have graffiti applied.<\/p>\n They clearly don’t care that people live in the areas where they intend to conduct criminal damage nor about the fear (and additional damage) it will create.<\/p>\n They clearly have not thought about social cohesion and how this kind of hate crime – which is what it is – creates divisions that will last far longer than the short-term fun and publicity they seek. This is not resolving differences, it is creating conflict.<\/p>\n This is a few people wanting to cause social upheaval and using it to raise mobs to go out and cause damage without consideration for knock-on effects and consequences is not making the world a better place. It is teaching people that anti-social behaviour is a good thing and that despising other sections of society and blaming them for acts that happened before they were born is progress.<\/p>\n It is just some people, fuelled by hate, creating power for themselves at the expense of others and getting other people to do their dirty work for them.<\/p>\n It’s just Kristallnacht<\/a> in reverse.<\/p>\n I fail to see how this is appropriate as a “Networking for Peace” activity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I struggle to understand how criminal damage and attacking people’s history is peace-making. I’ve just had a post through on the Networking for Peace mailing list: “Germany : Tear This Down – Eliminate Colonialism Now” which links to a site … Continue reading