Civil disobedience is not meant to draw attention. It’s meant to fight back without violence.
Drawing attention is a protest or a boycott.
AbouBenAdhem@lemmy.world 1 day ago
One misconception I had about civil disobedience from what I’d learned in school is that it’s a reliable means of drawing attention to your cause: your willingness to subject yourself to legal punishment will communicate to the public how critical you consider the issue.
What I learned from witnessing it first-hand is that the media will invent its own narratives about your actions out of whole cloth, and your ability to communicate anything to the public is subject to arbitrary media distortion.
peoplebeproblems@midwest.social 1 day ago
AbouBenAdhem@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Civil disobedience can overlap with both direct action and protest. But that’s my point: we were only ever taught about the latter.
peoplebeproblems@midwest.social 1 day ago
Ok fair, yes.
Daft_ish@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 day ago
Sounds about right.
When it comes to the media the well is poisoned. We need to teach an entire population how to consume new media and we cant do it fast enough.
Eventually, though, that will stabilize. Then there will be cultural revolutions in that space.
Tuuktuuk@sopuli.xyz 1 day ago
What is thia “new media” for you? Because for many it means sources that tell an alternative truth. Usually written in Sankt-Peterburg.
Daft_ish@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 day ago
And there use to be these things call tabloids, what is your point?
Tuuktuuk@sopuli.xyz 1 day ago
Asking you what you mean with “new media”.
I don’t really think you define it as “anything that isn’t a tabloid”, because tabloids have the same content as what I understand under “new media”. And because my understanding of “New Media” is basically “alternative facts, just like in tabloids”, and I don’t think you necessary understand it the same way, I am asking.