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what is up with these protesters blocking traffic? how does that stop a ship?
You literally wrote the word "protesters" and appear to be confused as to what a protestor or a protest actually is?
Don't you know? Ghandi, MLK, the Molly Meguires... They all won they're rights by inconveniencing regular people! They definitely never engaged with people that have the actual power to change things.
All of those people did things that if you saw them today you would be saying the same things about them that you're saying about protestors now.
MLK in particular organized a lot of traffic-blocking protests.
Well, let's see, for one you can engage with people in power through inconveniencing "regular people." For two, those three absolutely led movements that contained times of "inconveniencing regular people."
Acting like they didn't actively disrupt the status quo and lives of folks going about their regular business is very dismissive and honestly ignorant.
Three figures which exist to whitewash oppressed people freeing themselves using violence.
After mass murdering and colonizing people, the Brits saw Ghandi. He was so brave and peaceful with his hunger strike that the Brits spontaneously found their humanity and stopped colonizing. The end.
They are blocking traffic around the town hall to inconvenience and drain money from the municipality which allows the port to be used to transport weapons to Israel.
It's a sign of frustration that the government and the broader public largely choose to ignore these issues. I'm not saying it's smart or effective, but peaceful, calm protest hasn't done anything in the past decades.
I wonder when it's going to finally become acceptable to admit it?
Were the George Floyd riots smart? Probably not. But when you push people this far that's what happens. Our governments are explicitly condoning and in many cases directly participating in literal genocide.
It doesn't. I think these people are well meaning, but I'm not sure they've given much thought to the effectiveness of these kinds of demonstrations, in regards to actually affecting policy. I'm not sure they even care. I think stuff like this might be more about expressing their outrage than actually making any meaningful changes.
yep exactly, all it will do is increase law makers making up new rules to stop this style of protest
“this protest could have been a tweet”
Don't be so sure. Protesters lend political capital to forces within the government who agree we should be doing more to stop this genocide.
One person with a sign is worth more than a hundred irate posts.