Yesterday marked one of the most shameful days in the history of the Metropolitan Police as they arrested peaceful protesters including a blind man in a wheelchair, an 81-year-old woman with Parkinson's, a former British army officer, and a bunch of, um, Quakers.
yes, that’s precisely the point.
if you treat people as if they are subhuman and deserving of shitty treatment, you can simply accuse anyone of being in or assisting the “out-group” and waive their rights of, well, being treated as regular humans.
so they are now “justified” to take people inconveniencing the state’s plans regardless of who they are and just drag them to prison as punishment for dissenting. it’s also an easy way to get rid of the pesky public opinion problem and just do your genocide unimpeded. they help zionists genocide children, so not surprising they do this to blind and sick old people.
of course, this kind of thing was normalized over centuries of racism and otherwise “othering” people, especially in a major colonial power like the uk. is why this kind of thing can happen without major backlash, they are just turning it against their own people now.
the way forward is learning from the paradox of tolerance, and turning our hate to the ones responsible for it: the fascists and oligarchs in control of the state, along with their enablers eg. the policemen and media puppets “following the orders” to “keep the order” or some bullshit.