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03/05/11(Sat)16:29 No.4206072having
personally experienced westborofags up close, i will say that, yes,
while they are fueled by attention, counter-protests do provide a
benefit.
1. It helps to provide some means of solidarity/support
to the people the westboros are proesting. Thus robbing the westboros of
some of their impact.
2. It provides comic relief to passersby
and gives the community the sense that Westboro is not cleanly getting
away with their retardation.
3. By upping the ante and making the
counterprotests funny/ridiculous, you turn an ugly scene of bigotry
into a more palatable spectacle of shenanigans that everyone can enjoy.
A
contingent of westboro protesters came by gainesville, FL April of last
year. Seems their general strategy is to stage several rapid-fire half
hour protests in any given city, and then bug out to the next city. What
ended up happening was that each protest, we had twice or more times
their number in counter protesters, made the whole thing look
ridiculous, in some cases crowded areas so much that their signs could
barely be seen from the road, and at the same time, elsewhere had
fundraisers going on, donating in support of the places the westboros
were protesting.
Our efforts were so effective that those assholes ended up skipping town early and never got to do their 4th protest.
heh,
the last protest westboro had that day, their usual tactic of singing
their stupid songs was countered by guys in purple gorilla suits playing
marching drums so loud it drowned them out. |
