It's a bit hilarious, and at some level sad, to see YouTube videos of people going to left-wing protests and interviewing people. There are surprisingly many examples where a person in the protest is asked what or who they are protesting, and they don't even know. At all! For example, the only thing they know is that they are protesting some upcoming speaker, but in some cases they can't even name who this speaker is.
Likewise in many cases they might be able to give the name of the person they are protesting, but when asked a more specific question, like "what has he said that you disagree with?" they get completely stumped, unable to give any concrete answer. (Some will just give a generic blanket answer rather than anything concrete. A few will admit that they can't give any example.)
There are also many cases where the interviewer asks a person carrying a sign what the sign says, and this person needs to take the sign down and actually read what it says, because he or she doesn't know.
Would you go to some event, and if some kind of event organizer tells you "carry this sign around", would just take it and start carrying it without even reading what it says, to see if you agree with it? Well, some people apparently do.
What exactly is happening here?
What's happening is that most of the people in these protests are recruited in one way or another. They didn't come to the protest naturally. Instead, they were called to the protest eg. via social media or other online channels, such as an email list or more often a discussion forum, or in some cases via physical fliers distributed eg. at university campuses. Many, perhaps most, of these people simply answer the call without ever trying to even find out too much about what the protest is about, or what the event or who the person is that they are going to protest. They don't care to research and find out details, in order to see how much they disagree with it and if that event or person really is worth protesting. When they read these calls to protest, they simply blindly trust that the cause is justified, and don't bother doing any further research about it.
When they arrive at the protest, they will be handed signs to carry, and as noted, many of them won't even bother reading what the sign says. They will just participate in the protest and start chanting the same mantras they have been taught, and that the people around them are chanting.
In other words, they are essentially just drones. Subservient servants. Useful tools. They do as their social justice leaders tell them, and they don't question it nor try to do any sort of research about it. If their leaders tell them that such-and-such person is a "racist" and a "misogynist" and an "islamophobe" and a "transphobe", they just believe it without question, even if they haven't heard or read a single thing that person has ever said. They won't ask for examples or references. They will just accept the claims.
This is exactly what indoctrination does, especially in universities. Rather than teaching people to be individual critical thinkers, they train people to become useful tools and drones. And it's working.
Likewise in many cases they might be able to give the name of the person they are protesting, but when asked a more specific question, like "what has he said that you disagree with?" they get completely stumped, unable to give any concrete answer. (Some will just give a generic blanket answer rather than anything concrete. A few will admit that they can't give any example.)
There are also many cases where the interviewer asks a person carrying a sign what the sign says, and this person needs to take the sign down and actually read what it says, because he or she doesn't know.
Would you go to some event, and if some kind of event organizer tells you "carry this sign around", would just take it and start carrying it without even reading what it says, to see if you agree with it? Well, some people apparently do.
What exactly is happening here?
What's happening is that most of the people in these protests are recruited in one way or another. They didn't come to the protest naturally. Instead, they were called to the protest eg. via social media or other online channels, such as an email list or more often a discussion forum, or in some cases via physical fliers distributed eg. at university campuses. Many, perhaps most, of these people simply answer the call without ever trying to even find out too much about what the protest is about, or what the event or who the person is that they are going to protest. They don't care to research and find out details, in order to see how much they disagree with it and if that event or person really is worth protesting. When they read these calls to protest, they simply blindly trust that the cause is justified, and don't bother doing any further research about it.
When they arrive at the protest, they will be handed signs to carry, and as noted, many of them won't even bother reading what the sign says. They will just participate in the protest and start chanting the same mantras they have been taught, and that the people around them are chanting.
In other words, they are essentially just drones. Subservient servants. Useful tools. They do as their social justice leaders tell them, and they don't question it nor try to do any sort of research about it. If their leaders tell them that such-and-such person is a "racist" and a "misogynist" and an "islamophobe" and a "transphobe", they just believe it without question, even if they haven't heard or read a single thing that person has ever said. They won't ask for examples or references. They will just accept the claims.
This is exactly what indoctrination does, especially in universities. Rather than teaching people to be individual critical thinkers, they train people to become useful tools and drones. And it's working.
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