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The Foolish Disruptive Ineffective Protester in Front of the Tank in Tiananman Square
Funny how no protest is ever good enough.
I was trying to cross the Square but a bunch of stupid protesters were clogging everything up. Why do they need to mess things up for ordinary people? This one guy was actually standing in front of a tank! What good could that possibly do?
Who are they going to persuade by disrupting the lives of ordinary good people like me? We aren’t the despots! Do you think that by inconveniencing US that this accomplishes anything at all? I don’t know what people like that are thinking, but they are hurting their own cause.
They are simply foolish.
Why don’t they focus on protesting the actual people who are brutalizing Chinese people? The kids driving the tanks aren’t in charge of anything. They’re just doing what they’re told.
Deng is the bad guy. This annoying tank guy should find Deng and give him a piece of his mind. Except that it’s uncivilized to bother people at their homes or where they work or while they’re trying to enjoy a nice meal at a restaurant.
We’re trying to have a civilization here!
Protests should be polite and non-intrusive. What’s the point of being angry or self-righteous or disruptive? It just…
