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Originally Posted by SeeBass
That is your opinion and that was the point I am trying to make that a protest is like art.
The road I am going down is that many on here speak of these protesters with vile but may support another so as per my original message I feel that most hate the messanger because they hate the message.
Sometimes art is illegal and it is deemed as "wasteful attention whoring" and sometimes people see it as art, it is in the eye of the beholder.
You may hate one illegal protest and love another.
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You are absolutely right that most here hate the message. In this case, the messager and the message are one and the same, and that is the point that you are missing entierly - and missing quite deliberately I would argue.
The message today was that d-bag hippy attention whores went out looking for attention and got it. Indeed, most everyone here believes that, and so too did most everyone who called into QR77.
The problem with shock protests is that they generally have only one result: the general populace loses respect for the protestor.
Nobody respects the assclowns who tried to force pictures of aborted fetuses into the face of anyone who happened to have a class at the U of C, and I would argue that a protest such as that would have the opposite intended effect.
OTOH, I once went for a walk up MacLeod Trail, and encountered about a thousand people also protesting a pro-life campaign. They were arrayed up Macleod from at least Chinook Centre to near Southcentre. They held signs and cheered cars that honked, but they didn't interfere with or try to shock anyone. I pretty much walked through the entire thing, and all I got was a single person saying "God bless you". No insults, no threats, no showboating, no interfering with people's lives. I disagreed with their message, but I had a great deal of respect for the way they carried themselves. More importantly, I remember it as a pro-life protest. I remember the U of C clowns as nothing more than a-holes.
If you want people to respect your cause, you need to be respected as an individual or organization. PETA and the SPCA/Calgary Humane Society obstensively have similar goals. PETA will never earn a single penny from me, but I will, and have, donated to the Humane Society. Good organizations exist to promote their cause. Bad organizations use a cause to promote themselves.