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dead0man
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« on: February 07, 2022, 03:32:38 PM »

If you want most people to hate you, sure.  Obviously it depends on what you mean and who you are protesting to (instead of "at"), but generally speaking, pissing off the people you are trying to educate (preach to, whatever) isn't going to work very often.
If a protest makes people feel comfortable, then it's not doing it's job. If it doesn't disrupt something about the status quo, then what are you protesting for?

I think the issue here is that people may conflate 'uncomfortable protest' with 'violent protest'.

Rosa Parks certainly made a lot of people feel uncomfortable, and all she did was sit on bus seat she wasn't supposed to.
sure, making people uncomfortable can work if your protesting something that they are doing.  If you make neutrals and outsiders uncomfortable, you ain't helping nobody.  Like blocking traffic to let us know that black lives do in fact matter.  It's an amazingly stupid tactic, yet I can guarantee some dumbass will be here shortly to explain why it's necessary and the next time it's warm out and a recreational outrage happens, other dumbasses will get run over trying to stop traffic on the freeway.
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dead0man
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« Reply #1 on: February 07, 2022, 05:34:25 PM »

If you want most people to hate you, sure.  Obviously it depends on what you mean and who you are protesting to (instead of "at"), but generally speaking, pissing off the people you are trying to educate (preach to, whatever) isn't going to work very often.
If a protest makes people feel comfortable, then it's not doing it's job. If it doesn't disrupt something about the status quo, then what are you protesting for?

I think the issue here is that people may conflate 'uncomfortable protest' with 'violent protest'.

Rosa Parks certainly made a lot of people feel uncomfortable, and all she did was sit on bus seat she wasn't supposed to.
sure, making people uncomfortable can work if your protesting something that they are doing.  If you make neutrals and outsiders uncomfortable, you ain't helping nobody.  Like blocking traffic to let us know that black lives do in fact matter.  It's an amazingly stupid tactic, yet I can guarantee some dumbass will be here shortly to explain why it's necessary and the next time it's warm out and a recreational outrage happens, other dumbasses will get run over trying to stop traffic on the freeway.

Do you think MLK "helped nobody"? He was extremely unpopular when he was alive, and his methods of protesting was considered extremely controversial. Nowadays he is considered the single most important figure of the Civil Rights movement.
he didn't make neutrals and outsiders uncomfortable.  He made racists and people who took their political cues from racists uncomfortable.  He didn't punish random people to get attention, which is exactly what stopping traffic is.
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