While you're right that guns wouldn't be needed at a protest, and I absolutely agree, similar to the government in the UK there has been a lot of crackdowns on pro-Palestine protests that have been labelled as antisemitism. My worry is that this incident will result in further crackdowns on legal protest rights that don't have anything to do with guns. My concern is also validated by the article, which mentions the NSW government is working on laws to restrict protest rights. That might have been unrelated and prior to this incident, but this is only going to galvanise this effort.

I made a post on Bluesky the day it happened saying they'd almost certainly use this as an excuse to crack down on protest rights. Hate being right about this.

That doesn't seem to be what you were saying in your post?

I woke up 3 and a half hours ago at midnight, and that was after drinking 5 8% ABV beers.

Oh I'm sorry, I guess I'm not a feminist? I'll defer to your authority :)

Maybe just no longer in the mood to be charitable because of all the people in this thread jumping down mine and other's throats for saying this was only true for white families. Maybe not in the mood for someone splaining to me that nostalgia is good actually and not a well-studied tool of the far right. It's almost like the fascist in the White House uses "Make America Great Again" as his campaign slogan.

Maybe I'm just sick of this awful platform and it's "progressive" but actually very neoliberal conservative userbase.

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Part of mansplaining is inventing a position to argue against so you can 'splain to someone like you know better than them. All I said was that it was only true for white families. Which you've admitted was the case. So what else are you doing here trying to explain away what was still a fact due to racism?? Sure, it wasn't necessarily the driving force, but it was a fact, and it's weird to be nostalgic for a time that actually sucked for a broad segment of the population. White families had it better than black families, and capitalists wouldn't have given up all that they did if those benefits had to actually be for everyone.

I'm not reading this long of a comment when you're just trying to justify away racism.

Nostalgia is a tool of modern white-supremacism, and people should be more aware of that fact.

*taps the sign*

Edit: I also NEVER SAID that white supremacy was the reason, as your first comment seemed to posit, so this just all feels like mansplaining. Have a nice day. 🫡

The issue with the post is that it is nostalgic of a time that didn't exist for non-white families. You talk as if white families didn't directly benefit from the fact non-white families had less, as if it was only rich capitalists sacrificing so lower class families had more in that era. It is a direct causation.

Nostalgia is a tool of modern white-supremacism, and people should be more aware of that fact.

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/0896920512448941

Heck, the OOP* is even misogynist here whether they realise it or not. Capitalists realised they could get away with paying workers half as much if women were going to enter the workforce, and families would need two working parents. Recognising and acknowledging that it links back to homemaking labour being treated as without value to society more generally as well.