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Originally Posted by woob
I think your dislike for the OccupyCalgary group may be shading your opinion of the whole Occupy movement. Even I agree, the YYC group are a bunch of nitwits, but not the case in some of the other cities. Yes, each city has it's nitwits but what do you expect? All cities have a homeless population, a population of entitled teens, a population of professional protesters. The amount of judgement taking place by the critics is almost amusing. And I'll be the first to admit I've lobbed some myself when it comes to YYC. But if you've spent anytime watching any of the Livestream or Ustream channels coming out of NYC, you'll see that there are many well spoken, polite, employed, good people who are taking part in this.
I think mainstream media loves to latch on to the underbelly of the movement because it makes for good news. It's like when you watch the nightly news, typically the first 20 minutes is crime here, crooked politician there, Nenshi did what?? Heck, how often have you watched the news and the only feel good story is a short 5 minute segment at the end of the newscast?
Protests are meant to be disruptive. They're meant to be loud, they're meant to be annoying, they're meant to grab your attention, whether it be positive or negative attention.
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No effective protests target and annoy the people that they're protesting against.
the one percent isn't really being inconvenienced, realistically wall street is the wrong target, they should be protesting the government.
They're pissing off, inconveniencing and annoying the people that they're supposed to be protesting for.