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That said, I'm actually kind of in favor of radical protests that sometimes turn violent. The other option is to leave the protesting up to the people I see in school who join groups like "Youth for Social Action," "Students Together Against Racism," "The Gay-Straight Alliance," and "The Environmental Awareness Club" so that they can put it on their resume and talk to their friends/parents about the good they're doing. I've been to meetings of all of the above, and 90% of the people draw from the ultra-trendy socialite crowd (you know, the dyed, Abercrombie-wearing blondes who drive Daddy's SUV to Environmental Awarness Club). Given that, I'd say that it's somewhat comforting to see people who are still willing to go flip some police cars or what have you to prove a point. If you really think war in Iraq or international capitalism or whatever kills hundreds; thousands of people, then smashing a few storefronts is by far the lesser of two evils.
Oh god. That's all there IS in my goddamn school. It's a nightmare. I'm not exactly in favor of the "violent" protest thing exactly, but I see your point. I think the problem is that those people don't live in the real world - they see their entire reality as but mere symbols of oppression, and TALK about lifting it. If anything, there should be a protest against the likes of the liberal left being overrun with those fuckers - it's why initially I veered conservative to try to avoid those people. Our thoughts, our ideas, our goals - all our dictated by a society whose only goal is self-preservation. The advent of moral relativism and thinking of the world in a completely abstract manner has led to the nihilism of the intelligensia and the disenfranchisment of the lower class, and has caused this country, once valued for its intellectual freedom, to devolve into a democracy in which the unpopular ideas are ridiculed and mocked and shunted to the back areas, and everyone's values and goals are but merely fads of the month. In pure moral relativism, where nothing is seen as preferable to anything else, what is there to live for?