https://rose.geog.mcgill.ca/wordpress/?p=421 Sun, 25 Sep 2005 19:05:38 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.8.10 https://rose.geog.mcgill.ca/wordpress/?p=421&cpage=1#comment-1737 Sun, 25 Sep 2005 19:05:38 +0000 http://rose.geog.mcgill.ca/wordpress/?p=421#comment-1737 Another thing protesters have to worry about: will the act of protest be turned against them? Will it be used by the other side (whatever that is) to show the protesters as kooks or, worse yet, dangerous?

]]> https://rose.geog.mcgill.ca/wordpress/?p=421&cpage=1#comment-1736 Sun, 25 Sep 2005 18:49:26 +0000 http://rose.geog.mcgill.ca/wordpress/?p=421#comment-1736 Intriguing hypothesis that the number of protests have caused us to turn a blind eye. I’m thinking of yesterday’s anti-war demonstration that, by some accounts, brought together over 150,000 protestors. Yet other accounts had a much smaller number, “several thousand”. I wonder if this lower number represents a blind eye to what’s on the ground, an inurement to the effectiveness of protests, or whether it represents a refusal to challenge dominant discourse. In other words, “Americans support the war so therefore there cannot be so many people opposed to it”.

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