A protest that doesn’t affect anyone is an ineffective protest. Protests are not billboards for a cause, they’re an attempt to force people in charge to enact change. One of the ways of doing this is to make their problem is your problem by getting in your way.
Protests that affect bystanders are an attempt to embarrass people in charge by making it evident they’re not doing what the protesters want from them.
I agreed with the Reddit protests, even if they affected people that just wanted to browse their communities, cause they were affecting the people in charge. The bystanders, while affected, were not the target.
Ad a counter example, fuck the protestors (supposed teachers but they’re just thugs that probably never attended a classroom) that close the railroads/highways in Mexico because they want the government to give more money to their corrupt union (CNTE).
Protestors are not always in the right, and affecting innocent bystanders is an abusive, selfish way to put indirect pressure. I’d feel more sympathetic to people who try to twist a politician’s arm instead of my own.
A protest that doesn’t affect anyone is an ineffective protest. Protests are not billboards for a cause, they’re an attempt to force people in charge to enact change. One of the ways of doing this is to make their problem is your problem by getting in your way.
Protests that affect bystanders are an attempt to embarrass people in charge by making it evident they’re not doing what the protesters want from them.
I agreed with the Reddit protests, even if they affected people that just wanted to browse their communities, cause they were affecting the people in charge. The bystanders, while affected, were not the target.
Ad a counter example, fuck the protestors (supposed teachers but they’re just thugs that probably never attended a classroom) that close the railroads/highways in Mexico because they want the government to give more money to their corrupt union (CNTE).
Protestors are not always in the right, and affecting innocent bystanders is an abusive, selfish way to put indirect pressure. I’d feel more sympathetic to people who try to twist a politician’s arm instead of my own.