Wednesday, February 15, 2017

On the Media-
The first story I want to discuss is the protests. It is interesting to hear how many protests there have been recently. Civil disobedience blows my mind. I understand wanting to create a larger penalty for this and I can see some of the value for raising the punishment. Part of this in my mind could be to scare others off so that this uproar in civil disobedience is taken down, but I am also scared that this can go too far and completely take away our rights as citizens. Some of the topics they brought up about what courts generally are tailoring to. I like when he said "just because it is ridiculed doesn't make it unpopular." This is a genius thought. We hear the two extremes all the time and those who are willing to yell their opinion, but there are those who feel neutral or even those who just keep it all to themselves.

The second story that I loved was rethinking how they accommodate protestors. This is something id never think of. Sending that strong signal of who has strength is very important to me. Because I know for a fact I have no rank, no pull. But once I speak up and conjoin with other and more and more people then I finally am gaining some rank. I have never actually been to a protest and that saddens me because there is a lot I believe to be true and yet I do nothing about them. I do not want to go and set things on fire and break windows, but I want to come together as a community and march for what I know to be right. I like the thought of places to gather, debate and have comfortable discussions. Also along with this Sean Spicer saying that the Boston Tea Party was an organic protest, but these are all payed and inorganic. HA. Thats what I have to say to you Sean Spicer. I am sorry that you are tired of waking up everyday and being reminded by the publics how much you and Trump and his administration are disliked. Its sad that people think that those that are turning out are being discredited with misinformation. Because that is dismissing them and then disregard gin the seriousness from the reality being protested. The mayhem with always be what the cameras are focusing on, not the hundreds of others that are peacefully bringing awareness.

The third story I want to discuss is Milo. The fact that one single man can be such a large troll to get protests against him. I do not understand how someone like him can wake up and feel good about proceeding on in his life. I see trolls swarming all of social media and the only way they can get power is for us to give it to them. Now this guy may be kind of shitty, but if we ignored his existence his relevance would deteriorate. He may not be Hitler, but he is no Ghandi and we shouldn't highlight the books this guy is writing and vandalizing. Milo is a troll and if we stopped listening he would have no choice, but to move on. Personally the trolls I see on Youtube or twitter, I just ignore them. I don't join the fight, I don't even use their name because the simple thing can give them so much power. Truthfully it sickens me how dumbfounded our society has become with prevacatoure and situations such as these. I think even bringing Milo on to OTM was too much because we just need to stop the hate spreading.

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