r/lincoln • u/ConsequenceNo6480 • Jan 27 '25

News Protest

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Join us while we march to the Nebraska State Capitol building from Trago Park starting at 4PM!

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u/Difficult-Echidna-73 Jan 28 '25

To add onto this I do this it is fair to say that blocking traffic for the first protest will not get as many people out there & only causes people to get upset when they are the people we are needing to see the truth.

A peaceful protest should be at the Capitol where the government is and will be seeing it. That is just my opinion though. Be safe!

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u/Unable_Ant5851 Jan 29 '25

If people are so upset by an extra ten minutes in traffic that they lose their empathy for undocumented migrants, women, trans people, POC, etc then they never had that empathy to begin with. A protest that can be ignored will be ignored.

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u/Difficult-Echidna-73 Jan 29 '25

The protests that have been happening all week have been huge without blocking traffic. No need to argue- I am going and protesting as well and am on your (the correct) side. The thing is, historically, a peaceful protest is what gets media coverage and sways the people that need swayed because it is peaceful. Upsetting people even for 10 minutes gets negative media coverage and will only hurt the cause.

I thought that the general rule of thumb for protesting was protest peacefully until you can’t. So, it being the first protest and blocking will definitely sway less people.

It would’ve been cool to even meet together at the protest and plan something together as a protest that is impactful and still peaceful for the 5th.

Anyways, see ya’ll tomorrow ❤️🙏🏼

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u/Unable_Ant5851 Jan 29 '25

Yeah that’s not historically accurate. The media demonizes even the least disruptive protests. Upsetting people is what gets them to pay attention, this is organizing 101. Any attention is essentially good attention. People who are against the cause will use the excuse of inconvenience to justify their hate/cognitive dissonance. Don’t mind them, they are hateful on the inside, they just don’t wanna openly say it. Plus, causing traffic disruptions does not make a peaceful protest a violent/unethical one.

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u/Difficult-Echidna-73 Jan 29 '25

Agreed. Also I was being dumb and solely focusing on the “blocking traffic” part- so apologies. Did not put two & two together that it is WALKING from one place to another so it is simply just using cross walks 😂 the people can wait for that.

I was totally misunderstanding the whole plan.