@fastandcurious@lemmy.world to No Stupid Questions@lemmy.world • 4 months agoDo protests actually do anything?message-square96fedilinkarrow-up1186arrow-down120file-text
arrow-up1166arrow-down1message-squareDo protests actually do anything?@fastandcurious@lemmy.world to No Stupid Questions@lemmy.world • 4 months agomessage-square96fedilinkfile-text
Tons of protests going on everywhere against Israel, but not a single government has changed their stance
minus-square@Goodie@lemmy.worldlinkfedilink14•4 months agoRead up on the civil rights movements or how women got the right to vote. Protests 100% work
minus-squareKilgore Troutlinkfedilink18•4 months agoHistory shows that protests worked either when the vast majority of the population striked, or when they were violent. I am quite disillusioned that gathering in a single square for a few hours with some signs will ever change anything.
minus-square@CaptainProton@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglish17•4 months agoOnly when there’s enough people that it’s bordering revolution. Note how many national guard were not only deployed, but actually found themselves in gun battles (over civil rights), it was nuts by today’s norms.
minus-square@DAMunzy@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilink7•4 months agoThere were plenty of less peaceful groups too. So I guess they 100% worked too.
Read up on the civil rights movements or how women got the right to vote.
Protests 100% work
History shows that protests worked either when the vast majority of the population striked, or when they were violent.
I am quite disillusioned that gathering in a single square for a few hours with some signs will ever change anything.
Only when there’s enough people that it’s bordering revolution. Note how many national guard were not only deployed, but actually found themselves in gun battles (over civil rights), it was nuts by today’s norms.
Note, 100% can work, but don’t work 100%.
There were plenty of less peaceful groups too. So I guess they 100% worked too.