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In reply to the discussion: A poll for you: I am a Medea Benjamin supporter and I . . . [View all]Bluenorthwest
(45,319 posts)People interrupted the President protesting DADT as well. And like clockwork the 'moderate centrists' came rushing forth to vent spleen about how awful it is to interrupt a speech compared to discharging people for existing. The calloused reactions of those who fixated on the interruption rather than on the reasons for the interruption are the reason such theatrics are needed in the first place. If those who are so steamed up about interrupting elected public servants were half as steamed about DADT or DOMA the interruptions would not have been necessary. Nor would the arrests of those demonstrating for repeal.
We got the repeal by refusing to play nice for those who wanted to delay justice for the sake of centrist bipartisan ideologies.
Yet another thread about delusions you have about Benjamin, without any quotes from her or cites to explain your frothy verbiage.
Those who do nothing accomplish nothing. Those who make noise often make great change. The tactic of interrupting elected officials in public is useful greatly because it upsets folks like yourself so much. The energy put forward in reaction to that tactic highlights the lack of reaction to the injustices being protested. They interrupted about DADT and the reactions against that tactic juxtapose with the inaction about the actual injustices from those who are so upset at activism. After the DADT events, many here were pissed off that 'those people' would not sit down and shut up, the reaction against made people look really heartless. People soon stopped opposing change, stopped demanding delay. We got repeal, even as the 'centrists' lectured us that we 'had to wait for the second term'. We did not have to wait. Nor did we have to sit down and shut up to please the folks who were fine to delay repeal.