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> There is no part of the official process where anyone is required to listen to or respect the opinion of a protest. That's kind of obvious. Actually, I think
by LawTalkingGuy 3y ago
> There is no part of the official process where anyone is required to listen to or respect the opinion of a protest. That's kind of obvious.
Actually, I think there is one - government media. CBC/BBC/etc should cover these instead of covering them up. If they represented the citizens voices honestly, they might not feel they have to blockade parliament to get their point across.
> Democratic politics means there's official channels for exercising this by voting instead of having to do this.
That breaks down a bit when your media only presents one side of certain issues.
There's no requirement for corporate media to be honest, but for state media paid for by the citizens that's basically its only purpose.
> If you want a rep to know your opinion on something you can call them.
You can contact them, but if you can't do it in public others won't know and they can basically kill issues by just ignoring them.
- astrange 3y agoIn the French case, media does interview the protestors, which is why we know they're not upset about economic unfairness or whatever but instead think the government is suppressing that the pyramids were built by Jews to mind control you. https://unherd.com/2021/09/how-france-fell-for-qanon/ https://unherd.com/2021/09/how-france-fell-for-qanon/ https://rips-irsp.com/articles/10.5334/irsp.556 https://rips-irsp.com/articles/10.5334/irsp.556
- LawTalkingGuy 3y agoThis is exactly what the media does, point to the craziest and imply that the group shares all their views. Even if everyone in the group was a conspiracy theorist they can still be right that workers are feeling the strain more than others. We need to steelman the views of our countrymen, not mock them. Think of what they'd say about your side if the tables were turned.