Online Protest == Can't be bothered to actually do something meaningful to register my outrage.
Sorry, but change means getting off your fat ass.
Sorry, but change means getting off your fat ass.
[1] https://usa.brianstaskforce.com/task/386/stop-unwarranted-su...
If they aren't afraid of you burning down their palace, they are not about to change.
Why do people in the US think that change comes from meaningless, one-click bullshit? In Egypt, the military says GTFO. In Syria, they can take up arms and say GTFO and have it not work. You didn't see arabs using twitter for the "retweet this if you want change." It was the get over to street a and b and mob.
Peaceful sit-ins on unused public land, out of the way of the entrenched interests is something to lampoon... nothing to be afraid of. You can't put a poster of Ghandi up on the wall and be taken seriously.
Peaceful resistance is standing in the way of the tank and letting the entrenched powers present themselves to the horror of the world. They will either turn popular sentiment strongly enough that they are taken away, changed, of they will stand down from stupidity.
It's like not forcing legislators to actually filibuster on their feet. Tweet-it-in resistance is worthless.
Stand up, step in, and cross the line if you mean it. Otherwise STFU and GTFO.
It would seem Twitter and FB have figured out a way to monetize that.
If you are similar or the same in fundamental, value/moral terms, others are able to identify with you and see how your plight/demands and their aspirations for themselves are the same.
Online petitions are worthless. You need videos that tell the story - like Mitt Romney and his 47%. You need students getting pepper-sprayed. Overreach and douche-baggery strengthen resolve for the believers and give second-thought to anyone trying to reconcile their better selves with the crappier elements of their own side.
Non-violence means little if you are not causing people to deal with you. Nobody is called to account for an online petition or a peaceful protest covered lightly as a hippie revival.
You have to push the envelope and make it uncomfortable - something requiring answers.
Not even Ghandi's movement was non-violent by your definition.