Brazil here. I hear from people like you all the time, denouncing violence and vandalism in our protests leading up to the world cup. I can tell you that this kind of civil disobedience is absolutely necessary.
See, you can delete emails without reading them, you can reschedule meetings, and you can avoid picking up the phone, but when someone is there in your face screaming at you, it's hard to ignore. Same thing with our protests: you can close the windows and put on your headphones and go right to sleep, but when you go to work in the morning and half the city is on fire, you're forced to pick a side.
Right and wrong get blurred when your elected officials start cashing in. For America, that's corporate whoredom, for us, it's the IOC and fifa. But having been in three major social revolutions in the past four years, I've learned more than one thing about it, and I've learned to develop a thick skin against defeatist comments like this.
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Brazil here. I hear from people like you all the time, denouncing violence and vandalism in our protests leading up to the world cup. I can tell you that this kind of civil disobedience is absolutely necessary.
See, you can delete emails without reading them, you can reschedule meetings, and you can avoid picking up the phone, but when someone is there in your face screaming at you, it's hard to ignore. Same thing with our protests: you can close the windows and put on your headphones and go right to sleep, but when you go to work in the morning and half the city is on fire, you're forced to pick a side.
Right and wrong get blurred when your elected officials start cashing in. For America, that's corporate whoredom, for us, it's the IOC and fifa. But having been in three major social revolutions in the past four years, I've learned more than one thing about it, and I've learned to develop a thick skin against defeatist comments like this.
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