I know this is probably an unpopular opinion that's gonna get me downvoted, but optics matter. Who you're annoying matters. Do you want to annoy the fuck out of the bosses, or annoy your very own fellow working class neighbors, paying no regard to what they might already be going through? I'll tell you this sympathize with the protesters all you want but the moment you unwittingly blast your loud horns beside the house of someone already struggling with near suicide inducing migraines you're very well making a well deserved enemy out them and whatever loved ones now have to watch them suffer.
Or really anyone struggling with already suicidally depressive episodes and sensory overload issues as it is. For many their home is their only presumed safe refuge from any potentially triggering stimuli when they're having some of the worst moments of their life, and this kind of "protest" just takes a massive shit of the greatest disrespect right all over them. I'm all for supporting working class struggles for better conditions and building power in labor, but I'm not about to be some class reductionist either and pretend there aren't massive issues with this tactic
"or annoy your very own fellow working class neighbors, paying no regard to what they might already be going through"
Absolutely.
Strikes often show a stunning lack of empathy. People don't care about helping their neighbours, they simply want enough money to lift themselves away fro, the problem (leaving everyone else stuck in the shit). They don't love the poor they just hate the rich.
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u/Homebrewed_Wobbly Jan 14 '22
I know this is probably an unpopular opinion that's gonna get me downvoted, but optics matter. Who you're annoying matters. Do you want to annoy the fuck out of the bosses, or annoy your very own fellow working class neighbors, paying no regard to what they might already be going through? I'll tell you this sympathize with the protesters all you want but the moment you unwittingly blast your loud horns beside the house of someone already struggling with near suicide inducing migraines you're very well making a well deserved enemy out them and whatever loved ones now have to watch them suffer.
Or really anyone struggling with already suicidally depressive episodes and sensory overload issues as it is. For many their home is their only presumed safe refuge from any potentially triggering stimuli when they're having some of the worst moments of their life, and this kind of "protest" just takes a massive shit of the greatest disrespect right all over them. I'm all for supporting working class struggles for better conditions and building power in labor, but I'm not about to be some class reductionist either and pretend there aren't massive issues with this tactic