Protesting grants you no special dispensation to delay people who work from getting to their job, patients from getting to hospitals or kids going to school. People on the Golden Gate Bridge were delayed for hours, many having to urinate and defecate in public. Contending that this issue is more important than their daily lives is to privilege not only your views but your choices about how to spend your time. It is arrogant to be unmindful of how much this sort of thing engenders the exact opposite reaction, losing support for your cause. If you want to build support in a community, respect it.
I think the people being slaughtered in Gaza have been way more inconvenienced than any American stuck in traffic. Talk about privilege, seriously wtf.
The arrogance is you believing you have a right to peace and quiet, a right to a life free of disruptions. You have no such entitlement.
It’s funny you keep talking about “your cause” as if it wasn’t all of our tax dollars going to fund the genocide. You are not separate from this.
My word, people had defecate in their cars, you say? That’s very interesting, because people are already defecating in the streets all over the US every single day. Hundreds of thousands of Americans, whole entire families, actually LIVE in their cars with no jobs to go to and ever dwindling options. The height of privilege is believing you have the right to pretend you live in a country that delivers comfortable living to its citizens. It doesn’t, you don’t.
And besides, defecating in your car on your way to soul-sucking job that will probably fire you via text message pales in comparison to the ghoulish genocidal violence Israel inflicts on the Palestinian people every single day.
This is not *my* cause, it is everyone’s cause; it is the cause for Palestinian liberation. It is the cause for humanity. If being stuck in traffic jeopardized your support for the cause, then you had no principles to speak of in the first place.
So…protests shouldn’t inconvenience anyone? They’re not entertainment, they’re protests.
Protesting grants you no special dispensation to delay people who work from getting to their job, patients from getting to hospitals or kids going to school. People on the Golden Gate Bridge were delayed for hours, many having to urinate and defecate in public. Contending that this issue is more important than their daily lives is to privilege not only your views but your choices about how to spend your time. It is arrogant to be unmindful of how much this sort of thing engenders the exact opposite reaction, losing support for your cause. If you want to build support in a community, respect it.
I think the people being slaughtered in Gaza have been way more inconvenienced than any American stuck in traffic. Talk about privilege, seriously wtf.
The arrogance is you believing you have a right to peace and quiet, a right to a life free of disruptions. You have no such entitlement.
It’s funny you keep talking about “your cause” as if it wasn’t all of our tax dollars going to fund the genocide. You are not separate from this.
My word, people had defecate in their cars, you say? That’s very interesting, because people are already defecating in the streets all over the US every single day. Hundreds of thousands of Americans, whole entire families, actually LIVE in their cars with no jobs to go to and ever dwindling options. The height of privilege is believing you have the right to pretend you live in a country that delivers comfortable living to its citizens. It doesn’t, you don’t.
And besides, defecating in your car on your way to soul-sucking job that will probably fire you via text message pales in comparison to the ghoulish genocidal violence Israel inflicts on the Palestinian people every single day.
This is not *my* cause, it is everyone’s cause; it is the cause for Palestinian liberation. It is the cause for humanity. If being stuck in traffic jeopardized your support for the cause, then you had no principles to speak of in the first place.