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Generally speaking, I am both annoyed and amused. I am all for their right to speak out and protest--within reason. As with every movement and everything, there is the good with the bad. There is the necessary with the unnecessary. There is the much-needed-voices-for-change with the batshit-crazy-sitchoassdownsomewhere.
And let us not forget that the social movement is not the end goal. The end goal should be (insert whatever end goal(s) the majority of the Occupiers claim to have). The end goal will not be attained quickly so I hope the Occupiers do not intend to sleep on the street until there is this absolute and visible change.
Last but definitely not least, it never fails that when certain groups of people (read: predominantly white people who are working class and middle class and find once in a while opportunities to express their relative deprivation) feel oppressed or exercise their voice of oppression, these certain groups want the world to stop. Don't kid yourself, the world has not stopped as much as people want to believe--the 1% is not shitting its pants as heavily as people would like to pretend they are. These certain groups want to pretend that they are the first group of people (read: most important group of people) to really experience what they are experiencing and the first to cry out so strongly in an attempt to be a voice for change. "We are Occupying and if you don't drink what we're pouring then YOU are part of the problem. What are YOU doing for change?!" Uh...the same thing that those of us who are involved in the community and with different power minority groups have been doing for years. Where have YOU been...oh yeah, you just realized that your shit also stinks and want to sit in the "Oppressed Chair."
Have your seat in the "Oppressed Chair" until most of you decide to get back into the “(for some, conditionally) Privileged Chair." Either way, don't take opportunities from the other 99% while you're busy protesting.
Last edited by DrPhil; 11-20-2011 at 09:01 PM.
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