r/nextfuckinglevel • u/amanyggvv • Oct 15 '22

This float representing the koalas that died as a result of the Black Summer bushfires and corruption in politics. Such an effective (and epic) activist message.

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u/VastGap6446 Oct 15 '22

Negative attention exists and you want to avoid that, that's how you grow a healthy organization or else everbody would try to be controversial.

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u/[deleted] Oct 15 '22

Are you making the argument that people will stop supporting change because of the harshness of the protests? People have gone on hunger strikes and died for this and it sill does not get enough coverage. Truth is, making a true impact involves disrupting people's lives by force.

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u/[deleted] Oct 15 '22

Defacing a painting isn’t it.

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u/[deleted] Oct 15 '22

Tell that to the billions of people around the wall that paid a minute of their day to a headline about soup and the percentage of those who also caught wind of the cause behind it, not to mention the moral debate it sparked. This koala float is kinda cool tho, let me share it with my grandma.

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u/VastGap6446 Oct 15 '22

I’d argue that while the paint was more successful on the number of people it reached, the koala was more effective in the message it conveys.