I've mentioned Protest Warrior on this blog over the years. If this website and organization is ever revived I think it would be more relevant than ever. It could wonder what signs could they come up with to trigger the far left of today including BLM.
I went through their long defunct website to pick out images of signs that would likely still be relevant today. Signs that would work, however, when PW was active back in the 2000s most of their counter activism was pro-Israel and focused a lot on the Middle East. Some of the characters they had on their signs Yasser Arafat and Saddam Hussein are no longer alive. Also they took aim at the United Nations as for some they don't even represent the best solution to the issues of peace and security of the world.
Regardless I would dare say for PW is that today's activist environment is a lot more volatile in 2020 than it was in say 2003-04. Basically the fight was against the so-called peace movement which could be described as more anti-American than anti-war. These days I think counterprotesting groups as BLM and Antifa is a far more dangerous proposition in more ways than one.
The signs you see below would be very relevant today.
This sign is exceptionally relevant. The worst part of this sign is that some of the loudest elements of this especially that small retort at the bottom are white. They're the ones say the police should be defunded, they're talking the most about systemic racism, they're talking the most about white privilege. Wait did they talk about white privilege in the 2000s?
Hmmmm, some people can argue those same whites who are willing to pay for the sins of the atrocities over the past few centuries might me more racist than they realize. I would argue being a so-called anti-racist is the real white privilege. And consider this a Black police officer out of Portland, Oregon did a media availability to state that it was usually a white anti-racist activists who prevented Black people - who should care about solving the issue of police brutality - from actually engaging in dialogue with police.
We could change this sign for looting yes? Looting is reparations that's what a "spokesperson" for Chicago's BLM stated for local TV cameras and got some play on FOX News in recent weeks. There is one city that I know of that has voted on reparations for the descendants of slaves.
Well this could apply to more than the Green Party. I think the activists who remain in the streets into August really have this mentality. They're not going to solve any problems, the goal is the spread the misery to those who aren't suffering any misery. Or indeed to complain about gentrification claiming you're squeezing minorities out of their communities.
This is more of a message for today as we're still in the heat of a global pandemic. We're trying to figure out how to insure our young people can continue their education. We hope to send them back to the classrooms while the teachers are far more concerned about the possibility of getting sick. However today's crisis has caused me to wonder if we need reforms in our education system. One reform I do support is vouchers so that the young people living in low-income communities can go to a great private school and get a high level of education.
What's true before coronavirus is that there are doubts you can get a high level of education in public schools. Of course we can expand this to higher education, we need to reform what's going on there as well.
I went through their long defunct website to pick out images of signs that would likely still be relevant today. Signs that would work, however, when PW was active back in the 2000s most of their counter activism was pro-Israel and focused a lot on the Middle East. Some of the characters they had on their signs Yasser Arafat and Saddam Hussein are no longer alive. Also they took aim at the United Nations as for some they don't even represent the best solution to the issues of peace and security of the world.
Regardless I would dare say for PW is that today's activist environment is a lot more volatile in 2020 than it was in say 2003-04. Basically the fight was against the so-called peace movement which could be described as more anti-American than anti-war. These days I think counterprotesting groups as BLM and Antifa is a far more dangerous proposition in more ways than one.
The signs you see below would be very relevant today.
What's true before coronavirus is that there are doubts you can get a high level of education in public schools. Of course we can expand this to higher education, we need to reform what's going on there as well.
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