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AI Weiwei holds silent protest outside Julian Assange's extradition hearing

• SQueeeeeL 6y ago
  Ahh yes, our rights may be being eroded away, but at least a few people "silently protested" while it happened! That will really show the state not to mess with us!
  • 0_gravitas 6y ago
    peaceful protests get ridiculed as weak/ineffectual while even mildly active protests are called riots and savagery, what the hell is anyone to do?
    • SQueeeeeL 6y ago
      The people who call mildly active protests riots are the ones doing the oppressing, just btw
    • nextweek2 6y ago
      You vote and convince others that your viewpoint is valid. Writing to your representative is a very real option.
  • me_me_me 6y ago
    If enough people do it, they gain independence (India, Poland) or civil rights MLK. And because those protests are non-violent, and almost always the protestors suffer. They get the moral high-ground and people believing in cause rally around the protest and not extremist who want to burn down something. Imagine any example I gave was a violent protest ending up as bloody conflict. How would any of them end up?