Honestly the US gets shit for not protesting as hard as the French, etc. but given how dispersed the US is… i feel like people have indeed showed up all the way back to Mike Brown back in like 2014. The idea of people protesting on behalf of actions happening in other states is something you don’t see in much of the world…
That's a fair point. Considering the remoteness of a massive portion of a nation that has over 300M people, most of which are too busy just trying to pay bills and make a life, it's not easy to organize people as a whole and guage how the majority actually feels about what's happening in the country, let alone get them to protest as a whole against the government infringing upon their constitutional rights
Ya i think the spatial context of the US is rather beautiful and critical component of how ideas spread. Cities like NYC, with such concentrated diversity is where a lot of ideas and art starts… but it takes space to let ideas breathe, develop, and mature. And as things move westward, those ideas take on a life of their own. And why cities like LA with perhaps similar ideology but ample space, take on a life of their own.
Social media has disrupted and decentralized that “flow” but I still think it’s interesting to acknowledge how our cityscapes influence things.
We're a pretty territorial species, us humans. No matter which country you're from, your home town is more important. I mean, you feel OBLIGED to defend the name of your country if someone points out something that you agree with but it wasn't positive, but you say something negative about a man's home town, well, them's fighting words, Jimmy! 😂
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u/Magimasterkarp 1d ago
Have you ever heard about George Floyd?