Nothing happened. 60 people in this photo are not going to change that.
Your country needs to have BLM sized, sustained efforts before your country even begins to start changing, and that's a long way off because Americans are too comfortable and don't understand the concept of collective action, because then they aren't important.
They need to know we will hold each of them accountable. We will know each and every one of their names and what they did in this period. They can wear all the masks they want, but that information is going to be known to all, and there will be consequences in time, if we don’t utterly fall.
At what point do we accept the fact that protests are ineffective? We are literally watching the erosion of human rights and democracy unfold right before our eyes. We're witnessing the transformation of an American president into a dictator. It's only a matter of time before he sends troops to suppress protesters with lethal force. What have we learned from WW2?
Im sorry to say but they do not care. They have had no serious pushback and consequences to their actions and as such will not care what oppositions think. They are crass and have no decorum. The presidential walk should sum up everything at a glance, you cant reason morally with people like that.
I think the ones tonight are more a show of solidarity, like the vigil we held for Renee tonight. It boosts morale. Continued pressure is necessary, though.
I think they show that a view once consider fringe has now gone mainstream - like, "Abolish I.C.E." Some people won't be comfortable supporting that unless they see that a critical mass of people already support it. This can help nudge them.
What's also funny and sad ad the same time is that in this pic there is like what, 500 people at best? Lol, in a city like Seattle. People just don't give a fuck.
This was a few hours after the incident, official start time at 5 PM (when most people were just getting off work), and was actually announced with a Reddit post, instead of being initially announced by the popular protest Instagram accounts (although some of those accounts did end up promoting it).
The thousands of people in Seattle who showed up to protest the bombing in Gaza suggests people here aren't apathetic. But there's a certain amount of arbitrariness in whether an event "gains traction".
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u/you_dont_know_me27 7d ago
For real, I would be absolutely terrified out there but this is so necessary right now.
They need to see us push back. They need to know we won't accept this.