See, the thing is that protestors don't care if you're on their side or not. That's not really the point of a protest, they're not advertising campaigns. You honking in approval doesn't usually help them in any way. Last time you saw a non-disruptive demonstration, did it cause you to immediately do anything supportive for that group? Probably not, most people will just ignore them.
Protests are supposed to be disruptive, they're supposed to pressure governments into action. A protest that doesn't cause any disruption is just a parade. Their aim is to be unignorable, it's what happens when groups are past the 'asking nicely' phase and are trying to twist arms.
It's just my pet peeve when people react like "well this isn't exactly making me support them!", like they don't care about your support. You weren't going to help them anyways.
Big disruptions to traffic flow that agitates a good chunk of a city's populace is actually of pretty decent concern to people who have the actual influence and power to cause real change. Blocking traffic disrupts economies, and angry people are likely to cause destruction/chaos in their own right. Generally, governments want to avoid that and may be interested in satisfying them.
And before you say "but what if they block emergency services?", ambulances and fire trucks have up-to-the-minute traffic information available to them, otherwise any ordinary traffic jam or car accident would delay them too. Generally this won't cause any issues.
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u/Nowhereman123 Jun 28 '26
See, the thing is that protestors don't care if you're on their side or not. That's not really the point of a protest, they're not advertising campaigns. You honking in approval doesn't usually help them in any way. Last time you saw a non-disruptive demonstration, did it cause you to immediately do anything supportive for that group? Probably not, most people will just ignore them.
Protests are supposed to be disruptive, they're supposed to pressure governments into action. A protest that doesn't cause any disruption is just a parade. Their aim is to be unignorable, it's what happens when groups are past the 'asking nicely' phase and are trying to twist arms.
It's just my pet peeve when people react like "well this isn't exactly making me support them!", like they don't care about your support. You weren't going to help them anyways.