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boycotting can be effective. But protesting, when not an issue of actually taking action, is largely ineffectual when appealing to a public that already knows and doesn't generally know what to do, and a government that simply doesn't care, and has it's own myriad issues without caring about what the protestors are saying.
The civil rights movement was largely appealing to a moral, uninformed public - not a public that had been inundated with every micro-issue that anyone can come up with, and manipulated to be completely blind to what's in front of their faces, while both parties lie or get away with grevious wrongs.
You really didn't bother to find out how much we agree on. If this were war, you would be shooting allies and neutral parties. Aside from that, you put a hell of a lot arguments in my mouth that didn't come from me, and i'm not really going to bother with them. It's classical zealotry and bigotry, and you are incapable of seeing it, because you are being it.
It doesn't matter that you're technically right about some of what you say. I can come to those conclusions on my own, and act on them, without virtue signaling to you. But the world you would create, if people bought into your way of thinking, is an absolute wreck, because what you have inside is an absolute wreck.
And you want tp play at not knowing what growth is? It doesn't matter what centrist views are - your growth is your own. You either reach for it, and grow, or pretend you can't.
gtfo, yourself.
I only had to put issues in your mouth because you've only spoken in vague generalities and empty platitudes. Go ahead and tell me you support trans and women's rights and I'd consider listening to whatever actual policies you advocate for.
But if I had to put money to it I would bet you're a capital-L liberal.
Ya know, I came out the gate pretty hostile to the OP but I'm seeing what he means now.
I support equal rights all around. That means people can do whatever the fuck they want tp do with their own bodies and their own lives, and it doesn't matter one whit to me what a person's gender, sex, religion, or whatnot is. Trans people and women should have the same rights as any other fucking human. Not more, and not less.
The person's actions and attitude towards the world are their biggest impact, and the metric by which I judge which associations to keep in my life. .. not their gender or any other category. Demanding extra rights because you're male, female, white, black, cis, trans, gay, straight, etc will fall on deaf ears for me. Asking to be heard because you're hurt won't.
But if you use your pain as an excuse to assume the worst about others, while trying to come off as being a good person, I'll continue to say this:
Grow. Or repeat. It's the law.
Uhhh oh. Gee I wonder that those might be
like, if some ethnic or other group of people thought they were better than others, and wanted to rig government policy to adversely affect other ethnic or other groups, and tell them what they can and can't do with their own bodies?
but.. maybe I'm being unrealistic, and that would never happen.
..or maybe.. ..just maybe.. you're caught in a viscous loop of which you are a primary contributing party - where you are hurt by the world, so you lash out at people who aren't a part of the problem, and see enemies everywhere - thereby relegating yourself to an unmanageable situation that is only partially (but still significantly) of your own making.
maybe.. ..just maybe.. you have to take responsibility for your own situation, even though it's not your fault, but just you being caught up in the larger evolutionary sweep of life.
Are other people also a part of the problem? sure. But you can't address it if you're off-balance.
You have any examples of this being done?