this is why I ignore people who say "just protest the right way!" the issue isn't the method of protest; it's that they're protesting at all.

Well, some protest is still fine. Which causes? Oh, you know the kind.

I wrote a piece called "Protest and the Construction of Power" trying to get at why this is, tbh it's not my best work but I hope to revise it sometime journalofcogency.com/2024/09/23/p...

Remember this when people start with their 'postracial' bullshit. This country is as racist as it has ever been.

That crowd fully ignores the level of threats protesters face now. Like being hit with Rico charges and even MA efforts can be criminalized.

some israeli official just bemoaned hamas not coming to the negotiation table after they assassinated the last guy who came to the negotiation table so yeah people just say their lines and dont have to give a shit about them making sense or not

The library has it's own admin staff and vp. Wow.

I ended a long friendship because they kept saying, "why do they have to protest there/then/that way?"; I finally realized the point was that any protest *at all* was offensive to them. The only acceptable behavior was complete, silent, acquiescent submission to violence. bsky.app/profile/waga...

These same people would have been against the restaurant sit-ins

Really, if they're going to react like this for even the mildest protest, why are we trying to be this polite any more?

"Just protest in a way that lets us ignore you." ... "Not that one."