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>The point of protest theater like sit-ins and ICE protests is to make people confront what they voted for instead of being blissfully unaware of the harms. ??
by gruez 1y ago
>The point of protest theater like sit-ins and ICE protests is to make people confront what they voted for instead of being blissfully unaware of the harms.
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How does a bunch of diehard democrats holding up signs in front of some government building make people "make people confront what they voted for"? I'm sure democrats don't need any extra convincing, and any Trump voters isn't going to suddenly change their mind, any more than a bunch of evangelicals picketing outside an abortion clinic is going to convince a democrat's mind.
- lern_too_spel 1y ago> How does a bunch of diehard democrats holding up signs in front of some government building make people "make people confront what they voted for It doesn't. Democrats didn't vote for it. Perhaps you should try addressing my examples instead of a straw man. How do violent attacks against people just sitting at a counter not make people confront what they voted for? How do protests at Alligator Alcatraz drawing attention to the conditions within not make people confront what they voted for? If people didn't protest what is happening in Gaza and the West Bank, nobody in the US would pay attention, and we wouldn't have seen the shift in public opinion in that we are now seeing.