(I’ve been waiting for just the right opportunity to post that (badly acted) clip from “Plan Nine From Outer Space,” and this story is perfect.)
Amber Matthews, 23, a social justice warrior who literally doesn’t know what she’s protesting and furious about, thought she was tearing down a string of Israeli flags at a New Jersey restaurant. She proudlposted the video of her vandalism—but good vandalism, see, because Jews are evil—on TikTok.
Oopsie! They weren’t Israel flags, they were Greek flags. See the difference? (Hint: One has a cross, and the other has a Star of David…)
Tough one! Hey, anyone could make that mistake…especially an ignorant, self-righteous moron.
In the video, Matthews screams while she is tearing down the flags,“Free Palestine! What are you looking at? You know damn well there’s a genocide. I’m taking this shit down.” She adds, “I don’t stand for it. There’s genocide, and I don’t stand for Zionism.”
Actually, her brains is so clearly atrophied that its a miracle she can stand at all…
This would be evidence of historical and geographical ignorance even if the woman did tear down Israeli flags. There is no Palestine, the Palestinians are 100% responsible for that fact, and a nation waging war after being attacked isn’t “genocide.” (Jews know what genocide is.) Having and loudly proclaiming an uninformed opinion is bad. Using the uninformed opinion as justification to destroy private property is much worse, and destroying the wrong property is more unethical still. Then she posted evidence of her crime as if it was something to be proud of, when in reality it is something that should require Matthews to wear a bag over her head for the rest of her life.
The New York Post reports that she’s been arrested and charged. Good.
Ethics Alarms 
I can hear the defense: “Amber is a passionate warrior for social justice who was triggered by the blue and white colors of the Greek flag and overcome in the moment by emotion at the thought of the genocide being committed in Palestine by the Zionist occupiers. Under the circumstances, who can blame her for overlooking a nuance of graphic design, and in the face of the systematic destruction of an entire people, of what consequence is a cheap scrap of cloth? Amber deserves our praise, not our censure. Let’s hope that Donald Trump doesn’t get the chance to put her in prison”
“Live by the Moron, die by the Moron.”
This is a big nothing burger. After all, she said, “my bad.”
(Psst! Earth to hiptsers: “bad” is an adjective.)
That would almost work. I like the part in the video where she realizes she destroying a Greek restaurant but is so committed to her actions that she couldn’t stop. She had to save face, right?
jvb
It is better to be silent and let others think you are ignorant than to actively articulate your ignroance, so that they are certain
Tom Sawyer would be proud.
jvb