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[-] pooperNickel@lemm.ee 141 points 1 year ago

And if they protested people commuting into a city, a huge source of global emissions, they'd be criticized for that too. People always manage to label protests as the wrong time/place. What they really mean is "protest is fine as long as no one, especially me, is asked to actually pay attention to it."

[-] woelkchen@lemmy.world 53 points 1 year ago

And if they protested people commuting into a city, a huge source of global emissions, they’d be criticized for that too.

May, just maybe, those aren't the only two choices. Maybe they could also protest in front of offices of politicians and actually reach the people who can change anything.

[-] AA5B@lemmy.world 25 points 1 year ago

And maybe, just maybe, the protesters should have a goal of not only getting their message out but winning people over to their side. Maybe a goal of gaining support.

I don’t think this strategy of “annoy as many people as you can” will succeed in gaining any positive attention

[-] grue@lemmy.world 21 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I don’t think this strategy of “annoy as many people as you can” will succeed in gaining any positive attention

It's literally the only strategy that has ever worked before, other than outright violence.

After all, who gives a shit about "positive attention" for its own sake? What matters is actually effecting change, and that does not require people to like you.

[-] cosmicrookie@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

When has this stragety ever worked?

[-] retrieval4558@mander.xyz 3 points 1 year ago

Lunch counter sit ins in the 1960s are the first thing that came to mind.

[-] cosmicrookie@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Yeah..

Racism is almost non existent now, because of this /s

[-] Sage_the_Lawyer@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

The Civil Rights Act was passed in large part because of it. Is your argument that the Civil Rights Act changed nothing? Because that's silly. Or were you just not thinking, and trying to score internet points? Because that's also silly. You're being silly.

[-] dustout@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

What if you want to make a movement lose support? Could you then do this as a tactic to hurt a cause?

[-] l0v9ZU5Z@feddit.de 25 points 1 year ago

Yes, why has no one tried that before, 😂

[-] gmtom@lemmy.world 17 points 1 year ago

Greenpeace recently protested on top of British PM Rishi Sunak's private mansion while he was away. And they still got swamped with "YoU cAnT pRoTeSt LiKe tHaT" and people coming up with the most contrived reasons to say they are hypocritical.

It literally does not matter how these people protests, people will always say they are doing it the wrong way, because chuds dont actually mean it when they say that. They simply dont want them to protest at all, so they can pretend its not happening.

[-] woelkchen@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

while he was away.

That's the problem.

[-] Thundernerd@lemm.ee 12 points 1 year ago

100%. The moment you point out that this isn’t the way to go you’re instantly seen as the bad one, that you don’t want to be inconvenienced. It’s so dumb.

[-] explodes@lemmy.world 17 points 1 year ago

People have done that but the publicity isn't nearly as large as a globally televised event.

[-] Thundernerd@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago

That’s a fair point yeah, I guess the publicity does help

[-] AA5B@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Any publicity is good publicity, huh? Here’s a data point that says “nope”

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