What makes a protest socially and morally positive?

Growing up in the 60s we had protests demanding positive change…Stop the war, racial equality, prevent environmental destruction, feminist power etc, but protests can pursue more negative objectives also…..white supremacy, book banning, racial inequality, predatory capitalism, anti-vaccination and anti-science, voter suppression. An historical example was Kristallnact. How do support the positive and discourage the negative?

 

There is no formula....all protests are legit both socially and morally.

 

A Klan rally is anything but socially and morally legit.

 

The KKK do NOT protest ...they acknowledge the Power that be.

 

The Klan protest integration and immigration with indignation. Their message is hatred and they are socially and morally bankrupt.

 

That is NOT protesting, that is manifesting hate propaganda.

 

Let's agree to disagree. Anyway, a protest in favor of discrimination, exploitation and just plain hatred is not legit.

How to support the positive and discourage the negative? Join the positive protests and counter-protest the negative ones.

 

Fair enuff.

 

It's an individual judgement call. I reckon if one is disposed to protest whatever he / she feels strongly about / against , their value in doing so will seem personally morally correct.

 

I support protest, but I want to be clear that I don't think it is as functional as lobbying for change. Protest is a vehicle of expression. That is something I can be proponent about! I think having a voice, and knowing and feeling that you have a strong voice and that you are being heard is very important!

What's especially important is that your protest does not go to waste. Are you saying something that leadership can listen to?

I think often with protest we risk appearing unapologetically juvenile, destructive, uninformed, and simply rebellious. How can we be heard if we resemble something that every parent on the planet can inadvertently see as a teenager throwing a tantrum because we won't let them go to a birthday party?

We have to find a way to appeal to leaders diplomatically. If we are asking for their help, and then doxxing them in the same breath what do we expect to happen?

Our tactic needs adjustment, because what we need to change is vastly more important than status quo, and than tradition of silence. What needs to happen? Tell us! We care what you think, and we know your voice is one to be listened to!

We have to find our voice to be heard in earnest in opposition to something that doesn't make sense! What shall we do if our leadership is where there are uncomfortable and incongruent parallels?

I absolutely stand in concert with protest, but I want to be heard and not ignored or mischaracterized and misunderstood.

 

When people start throwing up barricades, look around you.
If you've got Brownshirts to port and Klansmen to starboard,
YOU'RE ON THE WRONG GODDAMNED SIDE!

 

Brown shirts and Klansmen aside,

Do you think protest is the solution?

I believe in peace and harmony, and mostly I think a lot of protests are one-sided, a little like the fight between the Israelis and the Palestinians; extreme conservatives on either side will insist one cannot exist without the other.

The Klu Klux Klan and the Brown... Can they not co-exist?

With as much information as both sides have in today's modern era, I don't understand why either continues to be relevant.

 

I never got that Covid vaccine but I was not against anyone else doing it.

Not political with me I just had no desire to take part in a mass medical experiment, the whole idea of taking some hastily prepared big pharma RNA concoction that makes the cells in my body malfunction and produce some spike proteins scared the crap out of me. I am pro science for sure but experiment on someone else.That RNA thing never done before.

The anti mask asswipes gave us vaccine refusers a bad image. I am trying not to get it and these no mask people have a 'right' to go out and speak spit on everything and everyone, yuck.

Never needed that vaccine, the social distancing would have worked. I did it and never got Covid and by default never gave it to the next person. So simple don't cough and sneeze on each other.

 

In my opinion, it's the cause that it stands for. Some are protests for better. Some for the worst. Most are morally gray

 

Here's where you can attend the No Kings protests on Saturday.
Map and list of cities hosting "No Kings" protests against Trump on June 14

 

A protest and an occupation are two different things.

Any protest at a university should aim not to interrupt the scholastic atmosphere for an extended period.

 

The cops or the insurgents placed inside the protests dont jump start the rioting and violence in an otherwise peaceful protest. I have been involved in many protests for many different causes ( mostly for human rights, anti war and corporate greed)
All too often the police and/or the antiprotest insurgents start the fires. The media do their bit to denigrate whatever cause you are marching for by making front page headlines about the damage to property and or violence by the few not the many.
I have been involved in massive protests where a 100,000 people or more are peacefully raising their voices and a dozen or so louts smash windows etc or the police get bored with nothing to do and start charging with horses or sending in the bully boys all beefed up in their riot gear and nobody anywhere in the vicinity has done nothing at all to deserve their violence. Peaceful protests will not be tolerated by those in power. We must be demonized so the rest of the public misses the point of the protest. Absolute fact.

 

In my opinion, people who organize protests or demonstrations should make it crystal clear to all that intend to participate, that as soon as any violence or destruction begins----everyone in the vicinity of such should immediately sit down, leaving the punks doing the damage obvious to the police.