Comment on Mass protests have failed to bring about social change. It’s time for a new strategy.

• fiat_lux@kbin.social ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Then I have to disagree. They've been most effective on smaller jurisdiction governments, but there have been a good amount of significant protests the past few years. The Carnegie endowment tracker has a pretty good list.

  Physical protests have limitations though like transport to a central point. I suspect the support is greater than attendees.

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  • ubermeisters@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    So your claim is that mass protests have brought social change, and direct opposition to the headline?

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    • fiat_lux@kbin.social ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      and we don’t need new strategies, in direct opposition to the headline?

      No. In direct support of the article body, I agree we need to modify mass protest tactics to create more chaos. Chaos and violence are not necessarily the same thing. It is possible to escalate to something before violence, and escalation from 0 to 100 may not be necessary at all.

      The more innocent people who are killed, the more the survivors understandably want their pound of flesh. It fuels the cycle of abuse and atrocities, and we have thousands of years of evidence that murder has had limited effectiveness at creating a better world too.

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