Protesters calling for a cease-fire in the Israel-Hamas war blocked northbound traffic on Interstate 5 in Seattle for several hours Saturday.

Can someone please calmly explain how blocking a freeway across an ocean and a country on a different continent, is supposed to have any effect on a political issue in the middle east?

  • luckyhunter@lemmy.world
    733·
    11 months ago

    The people delayed in traffic on the other hand have zero influence. And more than likely are now massive Israel supporters due to being so pissed off by the protesters.

    • NoneOfUrBusiness@kbin.social
      405·
      11 months ago

      The economy being affected by the protest does, though. But setting aside the effectiveness of this method of protesting, lemme just quote MLK here.

      I must make two honest confessions to you, my Christian and Jewish brothers. First, I must confess that over the past few years I have been gravely disappointed with the white moderate. I have almost reached the regrettable conclusion that the Negro’s great stumbling block in his stride toward freedom is not the White Citizen’s Counciler or the Ku Klux Klanner, but the white moderate, who is more devoted to “order” than to justice; who prefers a negative peace which is the absence of tension to a positive peace which is the presence of justice; who constantly says: “I agree with you in the goal you seek, but I cannot agree with your methods of direct action”; who paternalistically believes he can set the timetable for another man’s freedom; who lives by a mythical concept of time and who constantly advises the Negro to wait for a “more convenient season.” Shallow understanding from people of good will is more frustrating than absolute misunderstanding from people of ill will. Lukewarm acceptance is much more bewildering than outright rejection.

      This is your attitude now.

      • WhiteHawk@lemmy.world
        520·
        11 months ago

        Except this quote could quite easily be used to justify absolutely any method of achieving a goal

        • ghost_of_faso2@lemmygrad.ml
          8·
          11 months ago

          I fail to see how MLKs words about white moderates pacifity can be applied to any method of acheiving a goal, its clearly about using direct action from the bottom up to achieve goals outside of the completely pacified and useless manner white ‘haves’ protest in historically, and the disdain they have for people actually trying to work outside of the ‘red vs blue’ dichatomy that does nothing for them.