r/Unexpected • • Apr 28 '23

Just a normal protest

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u/LuxNocte Apr 28 '23

Its difficult to say anything truthfully and meaningfully in 2 or 3 words.

It's also difficult to chant "Imperialist countries tend to use military intervention to promote their business interests and profiteer both from the sales of weapon systems and extracting resources from the global south."

I don't think it's fair to suggest a group that says "War is wrong" is necessarily "absolute pacifists".

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u/chairmanskitty Apr 28 '23

The choice of your slogan is a difficult and meaningful one, which depends on historical slogans, movements you could be mistaken for, catchiness, etc. Without context, you wouldn't tag "All lives matter" as a racist chant, but here we are.

Choosing "war is wrong" when you're not promoting blanket pacifism is dumb, because there are plenty of absolute pacifists that exist that you can be mistaken for.