The Outrageous Rise of Neotoddlerism(gurwinder.blog)
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The Outrageous Rise of Neotoddlerism
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The author must be pretty young if they believe disruptive activism just started in 2009.
Disruptive activism has been going on for <human history timeline> in one form or another.
Disruptive activism has been going on for <human history timeline> in one form or another.
They opened with
This is a part of the world with literal centuries of troubles, unrest, civil wars, cross border fighting, wreckers destroying looms in protest, soldiers on horseback charging public crowds and killing civilians, etc.
the UK saw nationwide anti-immigration riots in which cars were flipped over and buildings set aflame.
This is a part of the world with literal centuries of troubles, unrest, civil wars, cross border fighting, wreckers destroying looms in protest, soldiers on horseback charging public crowds and killing civilians, etc.
This is why I only read blog posts written by The Ancients who have been around since The Before Times
What does the author think that Gandhi's civil disobedience or the sit-ins of the 60's were? There were very similar nuisance protests.
They're either unaware of them or deliberately excluded them, given this hilarious quote:
"The Civil Rights movement succeeded because it was guided by leaders who had clear, specific, and realistic goals, and were able to negotiate to achieve them"
This genre of essay appeals to self-adulating moderates who deeply enjoy respectability politics and pretending to be stoics, though, so the author is just staying on brand.
"The Civil Rights movement succeeded because it was guided by leaders who had clear, specific, and realistic goals, and were able to negotiate to achieve them"
This genre of essay appeals to self-adulating moderates who deeply enjoy respectability politics and pretending to be stoics, though, so the author is just staying on brand.
maybe also the weird logic in this quote shows a discreet bias:
"""Generally, the Left-wing approach is more effective at getting attention; it took mass destruction by hundreds of Right-wingers in Southport to make news headlines, but it only took two Just Stop Oil activists with orange paint at Heathrow to achieve the same"""
Clearly the Southport event thugs were not planning to stop breaking stuff once a certain level of public awareness and news reporting was achieved...
"""Generally, the Left-wing approach is more effective at getting attention; it took mass destruction by hundreds of Right-wingers in Southport to make news headlines, but it only took two Just Stop Oil activists with orange paint at Heathrow to achieve the same"""
Clearly the Southport event thugs were not planning to stop breaking stuff once a certain level of public awareness and news reporting was achieved...
Well they quite literally have a paywalled post entitled "Why I stopped being a leftist" which is sure to be as compelling as the other seventy times it was written by others.
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My toddler is better at picking up after himself than me. Kind of freaks me out. Should I feel bad about that?
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That doesn't mean all protests are for good or worthy causes, but protests are a way for anyone who may not have power otherwise, to help influence society.