Saturday, November 25, 2017
Do protest actually get justice?
Many times there is a problem that grabs the attention of a huge group of people. There is a case that is unjust or someone famous says something that stirs up a huge group people. But do these protest actually get justice from these protests. Two great examples of this, are the Ferguson case and the NFL protests. We see that people started to protest because the wanted justice for Michael Brown in the Ferguson case and they protested because they wanted justice for Michael Brown, but why did it take a dead black kid for people to try and get justice. Why couldn't people find justice and protest before. As humans, do we need a motive to get rallied up? The reality is that there are lots of reasons why people protest for "justice." There are people that feel close or that are close to the case, then there are people that are their to belong, then there are people there to create chaos. But out of all these people who actually benefits from these protest, or who actually sees any justice. The same is with the NFL protest what have we gotten out of this? The social media world of today have empowered many people and have led for justice to be done. So why would people want to go out and protest in the open when protesting online helps equally or more than protesting in person? My personal opinion for this is that showing up to protests is a show of strength and to show that people actually care for justice. Second reason would be that there are people that don't know how to use the internet and that are old school so it would be much easier for them to just go out and protest. So in conclusion protest are not a waste of time and are beneficial when showing strength and also to show that people actually care about the cases.
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I think protests are beneficial if one wants to get their point across. The point of protest is to bring attention to a problem that a group feels is unjust, and protesting helps address this problem.
ReplyDeleteI also think that protests are beneficial. If people do not protest what they think is unjust, unjust things will keep happening because it will appear that the people not protesting do not care enough to do anything about it.
ReplyDeleteThe ability to protest is the basis of democracy, it is the right to publicly let your opinions be known without consequence. I agree with the notion that a physical presence when protesting adds to the power of the protest. To be able to see how many people share those opinions often makes issues harder to ignore. While they may not have the impact that is wanted, protests have the ability to draw attention to issues that would otherwise be ignored.
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