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>them being able to just silence you A protest is ordinarily not a story. The police suppressing a protest is a story. Protestors understand this, and there's
by closeparen 6y ago
>them being able to just silence you
A protest is ordinarily not a story. The police suppressing a protest is a story. Protestors understand this, and there's a whole romanticism around getting arrested on camera.
- jessaustin 6y agoA protest is ordinarily not a story. Over the last month we've seen the strongest proof of this that one could imagine. In India, 250 million farmers and associated union members went on strike. Somehow this event went completely unreported by USA journalists. In nations where the USA "defense" department could conceivably waste more money, the threshold is considerably lower than 250M... more like, say, ten? Twenty? Possibly a hundred protesters in Syria or Hong Kong would be worth a report.