Then the audience — made up of many young people & women — immediately started chanting things like “Four more years” & “Let’s go Joe.” Be careful of these stories.
Well, obviously. The audience was there to see Biden because they presumably like him. You think the protestors were going to suddenly win over his strongest supporters after yelling for accountability from their hero? Biden, the audience, and the press covering the event weren’t getting what they wanted to hear, but they needed to hear it.
Should people hold a pro-choice protest at a rally to support Gazans, shouting over the speakers? It’s not convenient but after all that’s the argument right? Disrupt every possible occasion?
Because women having their rights taken away deserves attention too. They interrupted this rally to target Biden, when there’s plenty of other places for them to do that.
Because there’s probably a good amount of overlap between people who are pro-abortion rights and those who are sympathetic to Palestinian rights. Abortion rights are also an important and immediately critical issue domestically, so interrupting a rally to support those who need access to abortion with a pro-Palestine protest is just going to piss off people at the rally who are already on the side of the protest. It’d be like if a group of pro-choice advocates started a protest at a pro-Palestine rally, it’s just bad form when the group they’re disrupting probably agrees with them.
I get the protest was targeted at Biden and Harris, but even still, it’s a bad idea to protest them at an event that is probably for an issue the protestors also care about. It just signals that there’s no reaching the protestors and they’re going to be unreasonable, even if Biden comes around to their side and stops shipping arms to Israel.
Protests should absolutely be disruptive. What they shouldn’t do is occur at events to support different marginalized groups. Protesting an abortion rights rally is fundamentally different from shutting down a highway. It’s like having anti police brutality protest disrupt a pro asylum rally. How does it help to disrupt an event for an issue the protestors probably support as well?
Again, I get they were there to protest Biden, but do it when he’s at a random campaign event, not when he’s at an event to support a marginalized group.
I love how we’re all so stuck up our own asses that people actually think it makes sense to hamper any sort of attempt at progress because it’s not perfect. This is the same exact shit as single issues voters in the Republican party over guns or anti-abortion. So focused on one thing that they can’t even understand they’re hurting themselves.
Maybe this isn’t you exactly, but it’s what your comments rhetoric represents.
Then the audience — made up of many young people & women — immediately started chanting things like “Four more years” & “Let’s go Joe.” Be careful of these stories.
Well, obviously. The audience was there to see Biden because they presumably like him. You think the protestors were going to suddenly win over his strongest supporters after yelling for accountability from their hero? Biden, the audience, and the press covering the event weren’t getting what they wanted to hear, but they needed to hear it.
It was a pro-abortion rally. Probably not the best moment for a pro-Palestine protest.
lmao, really!? The “it’s not appropriate” argument?
Please let the protestors there know when they can reach Biden in their home town at a more reasonable occasion.
Should people hold a pro-choice protest at a rally to support Gazans, shouting over the speakers? It’s not convenient but after all that’s the argument right? Disrupt every possible occasion?
Why?
Because women having their rights taken away deserves attention too. They interrupted this rally to target Biden, when there’s plenty of other places for them to do that.
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Because there’s probably a good amount of overlap between people who are pro-abortion rights and those who are sympathetic to Palestinian rights. Abortion rights are also an important and immediately critical issue domestically, so interrupting a rally to support those who need access to abortion with a pro-Palestine protest is just going to piss off people at the rally who are already on the side of the protest. It’d be like if a group of pro-choice advocates started a protest at a pro-Palestine rally, it’s just bad form when the group they’re disrupting probably agrees with them.
I get the protest was targeted at Biden and Harris, but even still, it’s a bad idea to protest them at an event that is probably for an issue the protestors also care about. It just signals that there’s no reaching the protestors and they’re going to be unreasonable, even if Biden comes around to their side and stops shipping arms to Israel.
Yeah! If you want to protest, do it somewhere that will cause no disruptions whatsoever! /s
Protests should absolutely be disruptive. What they shouldn’t do is occur at events to support different marginalized groups. Protesting an abortion rights rally is fundamentally different from shutting down a highway. It’s like having anti police brutality protest disrupt a pro asylum rally. How does it help to disrupt an event for an issue the protestors probably support as well?
Again, I get they were there to protest Biden, but do it when he’s at a random campaign event, not when he’s at an event to support a marginalized group.
I love how we’re all so stuck up our own asses that people actually think it makes sense to hamper any sort of attempt at progress because it’s not perfect. This is the same exact shit as single issues voters in the Republican party over guns or anti-abortion. So focused on one thing that they can’t even understand they’re hurting themselves.
Maybe this isn’t you exactly, but it’s what your comments rhetoric represents.