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Kinda seems like everyone is a protester nowadays...but in revisiting this thread...I'm wondering if all of this was for naught..
In the way distant past (slavery, suffrage, civil rights..) some protests have had huge impacts on history!
Go back to the beginning and note who it was that was protesting at the time that caused TIME mag to name the protester as the person of the year...
This time, it was the protesters in the Arab & Muslim nations that wanted more freedom..
but how successful were they - after a little initial period of success...things turned around massively...
now in all those nations where Time was patting the protesters on the back for a job well done, they are being oppressed as badly as ever.
Egypt, Tunisia, Libya, Yemen,and even Syria....
yup - sadly being slaughtered by the thousands and risking their lives on rafts just to get out of those nations...while other nations stand by..
Erdogan was the top individual choice as Person of the Year and yet he has killed and imprisoned thousands who rebelled against him.
Even here in America, a lot of protests like Occupy Wall Street, protests again Trump's nomination or election, protests against police & gobs of other things have been far, far less effective in accomplishing anything recognizable than protests in the past have done.... and they may have led to the police backing off those communities and crime/murder rates soaring!
They may have accomplished the exact opposite of what they wanted.
Now there's been a bunch more big protests here in America - supposedly protests for "Rights" - not exactly specified what all rights they are talking about but I doubt they can find a nation that gives them more rights than they have here in the US.
Or are protests getting less effective?
In the way distant past (slavery, suffrage, civil rights..) some protests have had huge impacts on history!
Go back to the beginning and note who it was that was protesting at the time that caused TIME mag to name the protester as the person of the year...
This time, it was the protesters in the Arab & Muslim nations that wanted more freedom..
but how successful were they - after a little initial period of success...things turned around massively...
now in all those nations where Time was patting the protesters on the back for a job well done, they are being oppressed as badly as ever.
Egypt, Tunisia, Libya, Yemen,and even Syria....
yup - sadly being slaughtered by the thousands and risking their lives on rafts just to get out of those nations...while other nations stand by..
Erdogan was the top individual choice as Person of the Year and yet he has killed and imprisoned thousands who rebelled against him.
Even here in America, a lot of protests like Occupy Wall Street, protests again Trump's nomination or election, protests against police & gobs of other things have been far, far less effective in accomplishing anything recognizable than protests in the past have done.... and they may have led to the police backing off those communities and crime/murder rates soaring!
They may have accomplished the exact opposite of what they wanted.
Now there's been a bunch more big protests here in America - supposedly protests for "Rights" - not exactly specified what all rights they are talking about but I doubt they can find a nation that gives them more rights than they have here in the US.
Or are protests getting less effective?
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