Protesting is Gay

In the colloquial sense

I was running errands in a nearby mid-sized city recently, and there were a bunch of protestors walking around. There were also many cars beeping, and I couldn’t tell if they were part of the protest or if they were trying to boo it. What I found most fascinating, is that none of these people were college students like me. I would say at least 80% of them were old or obese. If the purpose of a protest is to show the strength of a movement, this one was showing its weakness. A bunch of old hippies and obeseniks waddling around aimlessly like a tour group. Once in a while you would see one of the plus-sized protestors hunched down leaning against a building, next to their water bottle or maybe even a snack. The shape of their bodies reminded me of the poop emoji. I had seen student protests on campus. I only saw one before the Israel disaster, and it was a BLM protest, and since then it has exclusively been Palestine protests. It’s fairly obvious that the protest scene on campus is backed by a handful of ethnic student organizations, and that’s why they focus mainly on ethnic issues. This one, on the other hand, had no clear mission statement. Some were pro-Palestine, some were pro-immigration, some were anti-Musk, and some were whining about the recent “Marijuana and Smiley Face Enthusiast” who got deported. Some were just vague platitudes, like “we must stop the division”, whatever that means. I wouldn’t be surprised if these people are the same TDS types you see on Threads who scream into the abyss about how the 2024 election was rigged. It made me feel an incredible sense of happening watching these people express their apocalyptic visions of the next four years, as if Trump was some arch-Gnostic like Cyrus or Charles Britannia or Mankar Cameron who wants to blow up the earth.

But, they’ve always done this. They’re neurotics through and through, they are timid and get scared by everything. They thought George Bush was gonna end the world too probably. Now that Trump is actually breaking certain rules, they’re losing their minds and asking their subscribers to start killing Republicans:

When Must We Kill Them?

I have heard many other people say to me that they have noticed protests becoming older and weaker, that young people don’t really do it anymore. Maybe they’ll riot, but they won’t protest. I can think of two reasons for why this is the case. Firstly, the political left (the source of most protests) is losing its monopoly on the youth. In much of Europe, the left-wing is already mostly associated with old people from what I’ve heard. Gen Z shifted to the right hard in the 2024 election. Secondly, I think most young people are beginning to realize that protesting is one of the most ridiculous social rituals we have. In the past, you could say it made some sense, as a means to simply spread the word on certain issues, but in the present day it is completely useless and perhaps even detrimental to a cause. The internet already makes people aware of issues 100 times more efficiently than public protest, and doesn’t disrupt people’s commute to work in the process. So, the opportunity-cost of going outside in protesting for 4 hours is terrible even if you’re trying to spread a political message.

The obnoxiousness is most pronounced in groups like Stop Oil, who literally sit around in the road and splash paint on famous art pieces in order to protest… Oil? Pretty much everyone I have ever met hates these people, so I think it is safe to assume they are harming the climate cause. But look at how iconic this picture is… Yes, imagine how much of an ego rush these two gals (?) felt when getting the media all over their little vandalism project like flies to shit, as they waited for the police to come arrest them.

People protest in order to virtue signal, or maybe even get famous. It’s a way of telling everyone that you’re making a difference, without actually making a difference. Because, really, you probably can’t make a difference and most Americans are unable to accept this. The idea that everyone’s opinion matters is a pillar of the democratic illusion, but the more it’s accepted the less it is true. Every time public protest has allegedly furthered a cause in the US, there is a large institutional culprit which serves as a much better explanation. Most White Americans had negative opinions on Martin Luther King, and this did not change for the better as he became more popular.

The Civil Rights Movement didn’t win in the streets, it won in the courts, and because of the political interests of the DNC, and because certain leaders were concerned about a potential soviet-backed Black insurgency movement in the American South. But a fairly left-wing burgeoning MSM oligopoly was able to sell these protests to the American people in a way that made them overwhelmingly approve of them decades after they ended. It also sold the movement positively to Northerners who had never lived in the South, rarely interacted with minorities, and never experienced any of the street performances in-person that they saw on the news. People like to say that the CIA shot MLK, because they were just so very racist. But, honestly, it was probably a good thing for the Civil Rights Movement. An already unpopular activist with many skeletons in his closet was turned into a martyr. Aside from race, evidence suggests that Labor rights probably weren’t the result of workers strikes and other union activities. If racial equality wasn’t the product of public protest, LGBT rights certainly weren’t. The Supreme Court forced gay marriage onto many American states. Most people, when they can’t change something, just adjust to it as the new norm. If they don’t, their kids do. It’s just the way the world works. When the supreme court rules something, it makes an issue a non-issue. That’s why I’m hoping that Trump will do more to humiliate the courts. We here at Sectionalism Archive do not believe in the legitimacy of Marbury v. Madison…

I think there is a somewhat less narcissistic reason people protest — it’s a way to network. Leftists protest a lot because they are much more picky about hanging out with people of certain political persuasions.

Even if you’re surrounded by other lefties, say, on an American college campus or in a big city, you might still want to find people who are total activist junkies like you. People who really like kvetching endlessly about politics. In the past, the best way to do this was to go to protests. They functioned sort of like concerts without a singer, or cosplay conventions without the effort. But now, college campuses are so left-wing that a lot of young leftists can do this on campus, or they can just get involved in campus organizations, or they can just ramble about politics to their internet friends like I do. As shown above, right-wingers are more willing to be friends with people of different political attitudes, but I also think right-wingers are more ideologically and aesthetically diverse, and subsequently don’t really get that enthusiastic about going to what is basically an outdoor conservative convention. Young conservative women, the ones who are really passionate about being conservative, seem to be kind of high-maintenance and lack the ideological/aesthetic diversity that right-wing men have. But, I can’t really say for sure. I am a total and utter stranger to the female race. Reader input would be appreciated here.

I don’t think violent protests work either. Most bottom-up revolutions in history have been astroturfed by power blocs. Or they only succeed by existing at the same time that the current regime has utterly exhausted itself. The French Revolution is an example of both. It came at a time where people were becoming less religious (weak clergy) and the aristocracy was dwindling in size, while the Bourgeoisie was relied on more and more for state functions and was increasingly wealthy, but was not satisfied being low-rank. The February Revolution was backed by the soldiers and the Duma, and the October Revolution was heavily backed by the Russian Navy (particularly the Baltic fleet). Apartheid didn’t end because of protest, it ended because the West put unbearable sanctions on White South Africa, because of old bad blood between the English and Boers, and because of American egalitarian race politics. You can say, “oh, well Anglo-American public opinion was influenced by people like Nelson Mandela”, but you have to remember that this influence was entirely mediated by the MSM.

That’s all I really have to say about that. I’ll be releasing a more serious article soon.