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Originally Posted by octothorp
I posted this elsewhere on social media, but I'm going to say it here as well:
In regards to what the outcomes will be: we don't know how this affects change or what the outcomes could be. And that's okay.
It's okay for a protest movement to not know what it's final goal is or how to get there.
It's okay for a protest to come from an emotional reaction rather than a calculated one.
Wherever this goes, I support the players' rights to use their voices as they see fit to benefit their communities, and that support is not conditioned on them having a plan or an articulated end-goal.
If a protest must have a plan to be considered legitimate, then we allow authorities to quash the legitimacy of any protest simply by blocking those plans. Like the Montgomery Bus Boycotts, you must assume that whatever your plan is, authorities will move to block you, and so you can't make your protest about the end goal or the means to get there. The best protest is simply driven by anger at the status quo.
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Poignant words, octothorp. Really captures how movements start and rise up throughout history, despite the majority telling the minority to be better, smarter, more efficient and more calculated
aka "Stop doing things that are irrational and upset the norms!! Calm down and do this quieter, later and less disrsuptfully!