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Tuesday, November 29, 2005
Man I hate protesters
This image from CNN on the Montreal Conference on climate change says it all.
 This is why progressive protesters never get taken seriously. Between the puppets, the dolls, the jackass anarchists wearing black, and the obnoxious retro-hippy majority, progressive causes will always be ignored. I've been to enough protests to know, the desire to replicate the worst aspects of the 60s protests makes most of these rallies a joke, and a turn-off to the people whose minds you are trying to change. What exactly do you think you accomplish by wearing a bear suit to a protest? World peace? No, here's what you accomplish: 1) You are giving the police a permission slip to beat you 2) You are giving everyone who then sees your photo permission to ignore your message 3) You make an important and necessary movement look like a silly game Seriously guys, you want people to start paying attention to your protests? Start showing up wearing suits like the MLK protesters did. Police don't want to beat people wearing suits. People reading newspapers might actually be interested in what respectable-looking people have to say, and it doesn't make your movement look like an excuse for a bunch of kids that hate their parents to play dress up and run around like idiots for a day. |
4 Comments:
I think that he looks totally cute in his little outfit--He's convinced me of his cause, whatever it is!!!
1:00 PM, December 01, 2005
I'm pretty sure it's a girl. But then it figures Pelosi would be a lesbian.
7:00 PM, December 01, 2005
There's a point here worth exploring--are these protestors just totally slack? All these costumes and drum beating--is it a reflection of a group of people who want to live a certain lifestyle, or are these people serious about changing something? I tend to agree with Mark's suggestion--that if they were serious, they would be acting like people that one takes seriously in the political arena. That doesn't necessarily mean suits, but it does mean more discipline and less drug use.
10:47 PM, December 01, 2005
Thats the problem with the 60s boomer culture of protest. It wasn't about changing the world except in the abstract. It was more about peer pressure, getting laid, and getting high with your friends. Now the problem is we're stuck with this model of protest where you have to dress up like a hippy and smoke pot or your not sticking it to the man properly. It's a joke.
8:34 AM, December 02, 2005
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