Do you protest? Armchair or street and does any of it matter?

[BrianSoddingBoru4]

[Violence settles some things.]

Boru

We still have to carefully choose our battles.

And when it comes to protests turning violent, protesters often lose more public support than they gain that way.

It’s often been said that ‘you fight the fights you can win’, which strikes me as cynical, self-serving nonsense. You fight the fights that need fighting.

I think whether violent protests win or lose public support has to do with the intensity and commitment of the protesters. The protest I was personally involved in spanned 30 years. You don’t change anything by waving a banner at the weekend and then forgetting about it.

Boru