DISCUSSIONMy experience with SJW infighting back when I was an SJW

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[–]Alienhunter糞大名 6 insightful - 1 fun6 insightful - 0 fun7 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

Sign based slogan activism is retarded anyway it's one of the most counterproductive ways to enact change on most issues. The best you can hope for is to gain more grassroot support and attention. But a lot of that attention is going to be negative. And that activists tend to be attention whoring drama queens means you just provide your opponents with free ammunition against your cause. And if you don't have the attention whoring drama queens and do have a boring peaceful demonstration with well thought out arguments, you won't get much attention.

No matter how it plays out it's a bad move.

[–]TotoroDeams 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

Sign based activism is less about "change" outright and more about indoctrination.

If I held a sign that said /u/spaz fucks dogs, put an end to it! You won't put an end to it, but you and others passing may look into the validity of the statement.

Talk to 1,000 people to get 100 people to respond, ask 100 people to get 1 person to buy.

[–]Alienhunter糞大名 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

It works for small scale local issues where your biggest issue is you need more people aware of it. Like "don't tear down the historical library building" or something equally non-partisan that is only of interest to local people.

For wide issues like climate or what have you I guarantee you that almost nobody is unaware of the issue, so there's basically no benefit gained from protesting. It's less indoctrination and more about the ruling class diverting the discontent of the society away from them and towards the other proles. You get the prole and outer party factions bickering amongst themselves and wasting energy to prevent them from joining forces and making policy that threatens the inner parties hold on power. Plain and simple.