Five Palestine Action activists face being sentenced as terrorists after they sprayed red paint and cracked windows at a branch of Barclays bank to protest the company’s links to an Israeli weapons manufacturer.
Like, I understand wanting to advocate for something you’re passionate about and passing out flyers or even holding signa or something. But when you throw paint at art, block roads, generally be an asshole to people just going about life you’re
A. Not going to even remotely convince me to support your cause, in fact it will probably more likely make me be against it.
B. Piss me off because you’re destroying amazing artwork (or whatever) and I’ll hate your cause.
Or C. Even if I supported your cause I’ll probably flip and be against it.
There is literally no outcome where I’m going “oh i didn’t support xyz, but now I do because you’ve destroyed something or caused an hour traffic jam”. Personally I think if you are that fucking stupid to lay on a highway/interstate knowing full well what’s going to happen you deserve to get hit. It’s not some kid or animal that wandered into the road that obviously doesn’t know better, or even someone legitimately trying to cross a busy highway. That’s literally attempting suicide to actively walk into it and lay down, and a car that hits them shouldn’t get charged with anything.
I find these comments really weird. “Look, I totally understand, but here’s a big list of things that show I don’t understand it at all. Like even a little bit. No, I won’t do any introspection and wonder if I might not actually understand”.
This is a very old topic, such that IMO, it’s not worth putting in the effort to discuss it online. Fortunately, it’s also a very well-researched topic.
For the question of whether disruptive protests help or hurt, the answer seems to be slightly more on the “help” side (mostly in terms of drawing attention, as I understand it). Here is a recent article that looks into the question in depth: https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC13064859/
Like, I understand wanting to advocate for something you’re passionate about and passing out flyers or even holding signa or something. But when you throw paint at art, block roads, generally be an asshole to people just going about life you’re
A. Not going to even remotely convince me to support your cause, in fact it will probably more likely make me be against it.
B. Piss me off because you’re destroying amazing artwork (or whatever) and I’ll hate your cause.
Or C. Even if I supported your cause I’ll probably flip and be against it.
There is literally no outcome where I’m going “oh i didn’t support xyz, but now I do because you’ve destroyed something or caused an hour traffic jam”. Personally I think if you are that fucking stupid to lay on a highway/interstate knowing full well what’s going to happen you deserve to get hit. It’s not some kid or animal that wandered into the road that obviously doesn’t know better, or even someone legitimately trying to cross a busy highway. That’s literally attempting suicide to actively walk into it and lay down, and a car that hits them shouldn’t get charged with anything.
I find these comments really weird. “Look, I totally understand, but here’s a big list of things that show I don’t understand it at all. Like even a little bit. No, I won’t do any introspection and wonder if I might not actually understand”.
This is a very old topic, such that IMO, it’s not worth putting in the effort to discuss it online. Fortunately, it’s also a very well-researched topic.
For the question of whether disruptive protests help or hurt, the answer seems to be slightly more on the “help” side (mostly in terms of drawing attention, as I understand it). Here is a recent article that looks into the question in depth: https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC13064859/