It's really quite simple:
Sometimes a protest can work when these things aren't followed, but that is the exception, not the rule.
Example 1:
Teachers going on strike for better pay.
1. They say their pay should increase each year, just like other workers.
2. They say the solution is to increase their pay: a quick change in the government pay system.
3. They go back to work as soon as the negotiations start, to show that their protest is only about their pay, and not just an attempt to not work.
The only flaw here is that sometimes point 1 isn't very strong. Some countries pay teachers well, yet they still strike.
Example 2:
Current riots in the US, that are spreading across the world.
1. They say that police brutality against blacks must end.
2. They say the solution is to end police brutality...*
3. They attack police, cause destruction and death to innocent people and property.
The cause is just. All people would agree that a police force should not kill people when making peaceful arrests.
* There is no realistic solution. "Ending police brutality" has no steps towards a solution. Added to which, many people are carrying signs that spew hatred:
"Shoot the white folk."
"F*** pigs." (All of them? Even the black cops?)
"No lives matter until black lives do."
That's not a solution, that's a call to war.
But these "protestors" do not simply obstruct the normal flow of life, they destroy it. They burn down properties and vehicles, they assault people who get in the way, they attack the very people they want to stop being violent.
Basically, they are exacerbating the problem in their attempts to bring about peace.
It doesn't work that way.
This is why the riots will fail.
They undermine their message with their actions.
To be fair, some people are there to protest peacefully. When the curfew comes, they need to go home and separate themselves from the violent people who undermine their message.
The rioters are mainly the terrorist groups "Antifa" and "Black Lives Matter" who have hijacked a worthy cause to bring anarchy.
Antifa is supposedly an "anti-fascist" group, whose modus operandi is to bring change through fear. Ironically, they are the very fascists they claim to be against.
Black Lives Matter supposedly wants to raise awareness about the hardships of being black in a Western society. But they do little to help black people and more to destroy their lives to show how tough it must be for them. Honestly, if the current Black Lives Matter didn't exist, then black people would likely be better off.
Protestors are welcome. Rioters deserve to be in jail. If they attempt to attack a cop, then I fully support the cops shooting them... with real bullets.
If I had a gun, and someone came running at me with bricks, Molotov cocktails, foul language and hatred in their eyes, then I'd shoot them too. In civilised society, that's called "self-defense".
Don't be an idiot. Protest properly or pay the consequences.
- Make sure that you have the moral high ground, that what you are are protesting against is really an injustice.
- Have a realistic solution, with steps on what needs to happen to make that change.
- Never undermine your moral position during the protest.
Sometimes a protest can work when these things aren't followed, but that is the exception, not the rule.
Example 1:
Teachers going on strike for better pay.
1. They say their pay should increase each year, just like other workers.
2. They say the solution is to increase their pay: a quick change in the government pay system.
3. They go back to work as soon as the negotiations start, to show that their protest is only about their pay, and not just an attempt to not work.
The only flaw here is that sometimes point 1 isn't very strong. Some countries pay teachers well, yet they still strike.
Example 2:
Current riots in the US, that are spreading across the world.
1. They say that police brutality against blacks must end.
2. They say the solution is to end police brutality...*
3. They attack police, cause destruction and death to innocent people and property.
The cause is just. All people would agree that a police force should not kill people when making peaceful arrests.
* There is no realistic solution. "Ending police brutality" has no steps towards a solution. Added to which, many people are carrying signs that spew hatred:
"Shoot the white folk."
"F*** pigs." (All of them? Even the black cops?)
"No lives matter until black lives do."
That's not a solution, that's a call to war.
But these "protestors" do not simply obstruct the normal flow of life, they destroy it. They burn down properties and vehicles, they assault people who get in the way, they attack the very people they want to stop being violent.
Basically, they are exacerbating the problem in their attempts to bring about peace.
It doesn't work that way.
This is why the riots will fail.
They undermine their message with their actions.
To be fair, some people are there to protest peacefully. When the curfew comes, they need to go home and separate themselves from the violent people who undermine their message.
The rioters are mainly the terrorist groups "Antifa" and "Black Lives Matter" who have hijacked a worthy cause to bring anarchy.
Antifa is supposedly an "anti-fascist" group, whose modus operandi is to bring change through fear. Ironically, they are the very fascists they claim to be against.
Black Lives Matter supposedly wants to raise awareness about the hardships of being black in a Western society. But they do little to help black people and more to destroy their lives to show how tough it must be for them. Honestly, if the current Black Lives Matter didn't exist, then black people would likely be better off.
Protestors are welcome. Rioters deserve to be in jail. If they attempt to attack a cop, then I fully support the cops shooting them... with real bullets.
If I had a gun, and someone came running at me with bricks, Molotov cocktails, foul language and hatred in their eyes, then I'd shoot them too. In civilised society, that's called "self-defense".
Don't be an idiot. Protest properly or pay the consequences.
No comments:
Post a Comment