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Oh, if you’re moving the goalposts from “Banksy had official support putting it up” to “the authorities reacted differently after the fact than they would have
by brookst 6mo ago
Oh, if you’re moving the goalposts from “Banksy had official support putting it up” to “the authorities reacted differently after the fact than they would have for others”, then I actually agree.
- mike_hearn 6mo agoOfficial support and not interfering with it being put up are nearly the same thing. It's not like throwing up a statue is some complex operation only governments can carry out.
- brookst 6mo ago“Officials knew in advance and helped or actively decided not to interfere” is NOT nearly the same thing as “Banksy’s team used social engineering to blend in and go unquestioned”. The claim was that they had government assistance doing the project. IMO that’s just a conspiracy theory to explain what “bunch of construction workers with flatbed truck, traffic cones, and high viz vests” sufficiently explains.