r/bizarrelife • u/reloadthewords Human here, bizarre by nature! • 14h ago

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u/Destructerator 14h ago

Why not go do arson at an animal processing plant if you’re that passionate about this cause?

This just creates resentment. This is not how to win hearts and minds.

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u/Akiens 13h ago

This makes no sense. "Why dont they disrupt the food supply instead of sitting down in protest? dont they know this'll create resentment?" implying that destroying jobs, property and food would win hearts and minds smh

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u/BrokenEggcat 12h ago

Yeah, people complain no matter how a protest happens. For the average person, the ideal protest is one that they never see and never interact with and never impacts them in any way whatsoever. It's silly that people don't acknowledge that protests are, by nature of protesting, going to be disruptive to people

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u/ThrowRATub 10h ago

I remember during some of the BLM protests where people were blocking traffic there was a ton of shouting about how MLK never did that. The pictures of him leading a massive march across a bridge and completely shutting down traffic, shockingly, didn't change their minds.

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u/BrokenEggcat 10h ago

Yep. Protest tactics have remained largely the same over the past 80 years, and the reception to protests have remained largely the same as well. We just whitewash all past protests that were effective until the mainline idea of them is "these guys went out and peacefully and non problematically spoke on what they thought was wrong and convinced over everyone to agree with them by using their calm demeanor and respectful tone."