| Comment | > Even if this is all they are doing it's better than doing absolutely nothing
Sorry, I don't agree with this at all. It's a 'lose the battle, win the war'/'win the battle, lose the war' thing.
If these folk end up going to jail for example they've now deprived their cause of four team members to go to the next protest or do the next action. Or, if this action ends up being portrayed really negatively in the media, maybe they've turned some people who might have been neutral or sympathetic off their cause altogether. Just for two examples.
I've been to a lot of trans rights protests this year and every time some chant goes too far and starts to call for violence it sets us back two steps because it's an open goal for the media to portray, to an otherwise neutral audience, everyone there as a crazy violence-monger trying to hide that under a social justice mask.
But I don't disagree with the rest of your comment necessarily. I might've been overestimating how engaged with the news and stuff like that the average person is. |
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