Watch: D.C. Police Officer Triggers the Ever-Loving Mess Out of a Protester With One Question
Another day, another “protest” in Washington, D.C. — which at this point is as predictable as the sunrise. Left-wing activists never tire of grabbing a bullhorn, blocking traffic, and screaming about their latest grievance. Climate change, “social justice,” or even open support for terrorists — the cause doesn’t matter. The constant is always the same: being absolutely unbearable.
That theme continued Wednesday when a police officer on the scene did the unthinkable — he asked a pro-Hamas protester if her keffiyeh scarf was cultural appropriation. The woman’s reaction was instant and hysterical, a meltdown that only the most privileged, affluent, white liberal could deliver.
PROTESTER: “Appropriate?!”
OFFICER: “Yes, you are.”
PROTESTER: “By wearing a scarf that’s trying to stop a genocide?! You think that’s appropriating a culture?!”
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The officer calmly pointed out the obvious: “You’re not Palestinian.” That’s when the screeching really kicked in. The protester tried to justify herself by claiming a Palestinian “friend” gave her the scarf, insisting that because she “stands in solidarity against genocide” she gets a free pass. The video has to be seen to be believed.
But here’s the irony — the officer was right and wrong at the same time. Yes, an AWFL (affluent white female liberal) parading around in a keffiyeh is textbook appropriation to feed her savior complex. But no, it isn’t “Palestinian” culture she’s borrowing from. That’s because the entire “Palestinian identity” — including the keffiyeh — was itself appropriated.
Historically, the keffiyeh traces back to Mesopotamia and was popularized in Iraq, long before anyone ever called themselves “Palestinian.” In fact, until the 1960s, Arabs in the British Mandate proudly identified as Arabs, while the term “Palestinian” was usually applied to Jews in the region. The modern “Palestinian” identity was a political invention pushed by Yasser Arafat and the PLO for the purpose of claiming perpetual victimhood.
So in the end, the cop nailed it — just not in the way he probably realized. This woman wasn’t appropriating “Palestinian” culture… she was appropriating ancient Mesopotamian culture.
And if that doesn’t sum up the absurdity of today’s protest movements, nothing does.
Natalie D. is an American conservative writer who writes for Supreme Insider and Conservative US, ! Natalie has described herself as a polemicist who likes to “stir up the pot,” and does not “pretend to be impartial or balanced, as broadcasters do,” drawing criticism from the left, and sometimes from the right. As a passionate journalist, she works relentlessly to uncover the corruption happening in Washington. She is a “constitutional conservative”.
