What is the point of protesting?

[Preety_India]

1 hour ago, Parththakkar12 said:

If one White cop killing a Black guy on camera can induce such a huge outcry and reaction,

Hmm. It's not just one cop killing a black person.. It's a trend, a series of incidents where black people are disproportionately harassed and targeted by the police and then killed. It has reached a level where something needs to be done about it on a serious level. 

At this point black people would be less likely to think of essential services and more about their most basic rights like the right to life. And they are completely justified in their Protests. They have no obligation to think of essential services when their lives at risk almost on a daily basis. 

 

[Chakra Lion]

@Parththakkar12 These days you have the older crowd, the family crowd, all the people that care from their hearts and minds about change. Those people are protesting in the morning/noon. There are no riots at those points. Not until you have the younger people, the radical and ideological minds arrive when the darkness nears. Many of those people can't move past political identification or other standard stereotypes like saying 'fuck the police'. The protests are good until those crazy people come. When they run onto the interstate or start smashing windows, that's when people tune in, and in a way, its getting attention to the cause. No one is going to watch a peaceful boring protest about Animal Cruelty, unless there are heated arguments or fights involved. 

But it is important to protest. One of the ways that a community can come together and show their displeasure with the structure. Peacefully or not. It takes Energy and Force to take Control. The Government has served its purpose. It was good and progressive for its time. A new Constitution has to be written, one that represents where we are, our values and goals in 2020, not 1787. Destruction breeds Creation. 

[Onemanwolfpac]

21 hours ago, Parththakkar12 said:

Communication of what? Is it a resistance to 'evil'? It generally happens when some crime happens.

What do these people expect? Do they expect to live in a perfectly safe society? Do they really think that if the police/government did its work perfectly that we would have a crime-free society? Do we still believe this collectively?

Generally, from what I've seen, the protesters don't have respect for due process. This turns out to be hypocritical on the part of protesters, in that they sabotage the working of their own government when they're asking for better government!

Generations of participants trophy and ribbons. Global pandemic. Government save me! God forbid people actually save money. 

Protesters and activists imho are lazy. They want government to remove freedom and embed laws. They don't do the work to make actual change occur. 

Tim Pool Linked a idiot celebrating the riots until it came out in their neighbourhood. 

[Chakra Lion]

12 minutes ago, Onemanwolfpac said:

Protesters and activists imho are lazy. They want government to remove freedom and embed laws. They don't do the work to make actual change occur.

While the normal person is sitting on the couch, doing nothing, there is an activist somewhere trying to get awareness to their cause. How is that lazy? How do you generalize a certain activity, all the people in it, and actually think your honest opinion is valid? Like saying Park goers are homeless...

How do you do the work to make actual change occur? How do you change Police Brutality and Authoritarian Government Control? By doing what? 

What are you doing?