Solidarity denotes the unity and mutual support among individuals with shared objectives, crucial in protests for reinforcing collective resolve. Protests are strategically held in high-visibility, disruptive locations to maximize impact and draw public and institutional attention. This disruption compels acknowledgment of the issues, leveraging collective action to catalyze societal and political change. In contrast, low-visibility protests are often ineffective as they fail to generate sufficient public awareness or pressure for change.
Doesn’t sound very peaceful and legal.
If you really love high visibility disruptive locations, make sure you don’t end up highly visible and disrupted on my windshield.
Bombing things until they got the right to vote wasn’t peaceful or legal when the suffragettes did it. If asking politely didn’t work, there’s no reason to think that asking politely but in a different place will fare any better.
So you’re going to fight genocides and promote peace with bombs and killing people?
Makes no sense. You’re insane, bro.
That worked pretty effectively in the 1940s, whereas asking the Nazis politely not to invade Poland was completely useless.
True, sometimes, you have to fight fire against fire.
But it should be the last option.
I think peace and diplomacy should always be the priority in any situation.
Peaceful protests are a myth taught to you by those in power who don’t want you a protesting effectively.
Maybe, I don’t protest. Most of the time, I consider them a waste of time.
I prefer focusing on things that I actually have control over.
I have no control over “those in power”. Whatever that means. Just like I have no control over you. But I do vote during elections when I can.
I’m too busy building my own business, working, taking care of myself and the people that I love.
Whatever you’re actually trying to achieve by protesting, I always assume there’s a more effective and productive way to go about things.
“Those in power” genuinely don’t give a damn about you.
They are too busy with their own lives.
You’re an annoying, disruptive, incompetent and/or unproductive member of society that has nothing better to do than create problems.
Having to use violence and chaos is a reflection of your own powerlessness and inability to be productive in a positive matter.
Why would anyone change anything for peaceful and legal protests? Significant change only happens because it is disruptive.
Go ask Mahatma Gandhi.
You mean a leader of deeply disruptive and illegal protest movements?
He was disobedient in a passive, nonviolent, civil and ethical way.
He was not, he was disobedient in a wildly disruptive and active manner.
Study any civil movement in history and you’ll see that it change happened because of disruption.
Go study him then. You might learn a few things.
It’s the opposite, you have no idea why change happens and think it’s out of the good will of the state.
The only way to change the outside world is by changing yourself internally.
Gandhi actually said it himself with this famous quote: “Be the change you wish to see in the world”