#AND all these last minute 'protests' call for large scale action that can't reasonably be accommodated for by the amount of people it would | Explore Tumblr posts and blogs

lightningfilledsaber · 1 year ago

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I'm sorry but what the fuck do people expect to accomplish by """"planning"""" protests literally less than a handful of days or even fucking HOURS before they're ""planned"" to take place? This is why so many (particularly INTERNET) protests have fucking crashed and burned. Even if your posts go viral, you are NOT reaching an effective amount of people in such a short time span AND you are not giving the people who DO see it an effective opportunity to participate ESPECIALLY if you are asking for things like "don't spend money at xyz" or even worse "don't GO anywhere" especially when it's "don't go to WORK" People need time to prepare for these things. Some people protesting is better than none of course, but you are literally asking for failure trying to "set up" these protests by informing people at the last possible fucking second. Especially because I know more than half of y'all aren't doing the local/community work ahead of time by gathering your own friends/family/community to participate either. You are asking to fail. Learn how to organize properly if you expect this shit to work for the love of god

#mud rambles #this isn't even about any singular post I've been seeing it SO MUCH lately #but even while the BLM protests were in full swing a few years ago I'd see this shit #Like do y'all ever learn???#the most effective protests have been the ones planned enough in advance to give people the ability to plan for them AND ones where the #organizers have already done a lot of legwork beforehand in getting their own community guaranteed to participate and aid in spreading word #this is not to say guerilla protests with a concentrated group AREN'T effective because they very much are but again #the organizers of those have made sure they have the support for it #AND all these last minute 'protests' call for large scale action that can't reasonably be accommodated for by the amount of people it would #need in the first place MUCH LESS actually get out to that fucking amount of people #and it's frustrating!!!!!!#because really all you're fucking doing at that point is diverting attention from actually well planned and thought out protests!#it's such an individualistic mindset to expect your random social media post about not going fucking grocery shopping to actually work #and protests are effective because of COMMUNITY ORGANIZING #anyway. yeah. just needed to get this one off of my chest cause it's been BREWING for a while

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