Which, in a situation where you have people who understand what it means to protest, works great. I’ve given that training myself on quite a few occasions over the… decades.
When you are just grabbing as many warm bodies as you can and most people are there because it is a party and isn’t TOO much harder than using an app to put a watermelon on top of their facebook profile picture? You can “train” them but they aren’t paying attention to the scrawny woman who has seen some shit and is trying to explain that the first thing you do if you hear a gunshot is to duck down, take a breath, and figure out what direction it came from so that you can move for cover. They are instead thinking about how fun it will be or what they’ll be able to put on instagram.
Like I said, Parade Protests. They are awesome for showing that people DO give a shit. But as things get more and more real, you are putting a LOT of uncontrollable variables into the mix.
Which, in a situation where you have people who understand what it means to protest, works great. I’ve given that training myself on quite a few occasions over the… decades.
When you are just grabbing as many warm bodies as you can and most people are there because it is a party and isn’t TOO much harder than using an app to put a watermelon on top of their facebook profile picture? You can “train” them but they aren’t paying attention to the scrawny woman who has seen some shit and is trying to explain that the first thing you do if you hear a gunshot is to duck down, take a breath, and figure out what direction it came from so that you can move for cover. They are instead thinking about how fun it will be or what they’ll be able to put on instagram.
Like I said, Parade Protests. They are awesome for showing that people DO give a shit. But as things get more and more real, you are putting a LOT of uncontrollable variables into the mix.