Do We Protest Too Much?

[Neurotic Void Melody]

We doth project too much. Protest?...No.

 

[KissingSunlight]

I want to thank everyone who have posted so far. Let me start with admitting that I forgot about that Kent State shirt. I don't know how that design got past everyone at the company without someone noticing that it seems to reference the Kent State massacre in the early 70's.

The people doth protest too much, methinks.

But actually, as has been pointed out, people just complain about unimportant shit most of the time. Meanwhile they ignore the shit that actually matters. But hey, I'm complaining about people complaining too much, so what the fuck do I know.

I was trying to get that Shakespeare reference in the headline. I couldn't phrase in a way that it didn't sound clunky.

Protest isn't the right word for the topic. Complain might be better, and the answer is yes.

Complaining to me would be pointing to a shirt and telling the person next to you, "That sucks." Protesting would be contacting the company claiming that the shirt is sexist, racist, causes hurt feelings, etc. Demanding that the company should stop selling the shirt. Which would be demanding something should be censored, because you don't like it.

Less protest too much, and more we protest far more often than should be needed because nobody really protests in the correct way. Or at least a way that makes people care even less than they did before if they did at all.

Thank you. I think at the end of the day. I don't mind people protesting. What they protest about needs to be something important enough to deserve the disruption that protests causes. Most of the time, people protest about trivial matters. Worse yet, they make serious accusations that turns out to be completely false.

 

[Ryotknife]

I feel like the INTERNET protests too much. It is like that one comic of critical miss where erin joins a mob of angry people, asks one guy what they are angry about and he says with a stern look "i have no idea" and goes on mobbing. The protest about the GAP ad is 100% bullshit through and through.

For all of the great things the internet has done, mankind may very well be better off if it was never invented. And yes, I see the irony of saying that on an online forum.

 

[Vanilla ISIS]

A lot of people tent to complain a lot about insignificant issues (i.e. Ghostbusters remake) and not enough about the important ones (i.e. Hillary committing crimes and not facing any punishment).

 

[Erttheking]

I find it rather ironic that the people who said people protest too much are the same people who tend to overreact every single time there's one less square centimeter of tit in a video game and claim "censorship." If there's too much drama around gaming, it's not a one sided affair.