I don’t think we’re understanding each other very well.
And like any other person, I would see how the followers of a protest act to judge the presenter. They are one of the only reasons any cause has traction. Without followers, supporters, or crowd members it wouldn’t be a protest. It’d be somebody standing on a box ranting.
So unfortunately when those supporters act a certain way, they determine how a lot of people will classify a protest and decide whether or not to find out what it’s about.
If I had been walking along and saw people screaming in the streets, marching in genitalia costumes and threatening the government I’d walk the other way. Whereas with the MLK walk, they may have been screaming in the streets, but they weren’t dressed offensively, and they were spreading a message of peace and change through brotherly love.
That’s not how MLK’s protests were viewed at the time, and the way you described the women’s march isn’t how history will view them. In 50 years, conservatives will be using the women’s march as an example of how people are supposed to protest in an effort to denegrate the protests of that time. That’s how it always goes. Look how much conservatives love Abraham Lincoln, who was quite progressive and despised by conservatives at the time.
Either we don’t understand each other or we just have very different views that aren’t going to change here.
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I don’t think we’re understanding each other very well.
And like any other person, I would see how the followers of a protest act to judge the presenter. They are one of the only reasons any cause has traction. Without followers, supporters, or crowd members it wouldn’t be a protest. It’d be somebody standing on a box ranting.
So unfortunately when those supporters act a certain way, they determine how a lot of people will classify a protest and decide whether or not to find out what it’s about.
If I had been walking along and saw people screaming in the streets, marching in genitalia costumes and threatening the government I’d walk the other way. Whereas with the MLK walk, they may have been screaming in the streets, but they weren’t dressed offensively, and they were spreading a message of peace and change through brotherly love.
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That’s not how MLK’s protests were viewed at the time, and the way you described the women’s march isn’t how history will view them. In 50 years, conservatives will be using the women’s march as an example of how people are supposed to protest in an effort to denegrate the protests of that time. That’s how it always goes. Look how much conservatives love Abraham Lincoln, who was quite progressive and despised by conservatives at the time.
Either we don’t understand each other or we just have very different views that aren’t going to change here.
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Yeah it’s probably best to just agree to disagree, otherwise we’re both going to walk in circles.