Protesters that hurt more than help

[Bob Saget]

Okay my fellow Escapists, I have a research paper to do in Advanced Composition class, and I'm doing it on the various groups who protest and wind up pissing people off than actually helping a cause. I got the two obvious ones, PeTA and Westboro Baptist Church, but I need a few more ideas and i was just hoping that some of you guys would know. Any help is greatly appreciated.

 

[darthzew]

I'd say Greenpeace but they actually make a difference here in Brazil...

 

[MindBullets]

Not so sure about WBC, seeing as the "cause" they are trying to help is a load of prejudiced bollocks.

 

[Ionami]

P.E.T.A apparently they put down about 4/7 of their animals, so much for protecting them.

4/7? Why such an odd fraction?

 

[Bob Saget]

Not so sure about WBC, seeing as the "cause" they are trying to help is a load of prejudiced bollocks.

Exactly, but they have the mindset of "supporting a cause", even if it is huge crock of bull.

P.E.T.A apparently they put down about 4/7 of their animals, so much for protecting them.

Yeah, I actually learned that in the research of this paper. Some even just threw the dead bodies in a dumpster behind a supermarket.

 

[dangerousdave_42]

focus on the family is one that really irks me. Though it did give me a good laugh when my mom got a letter from them detailing why sin city was such a bad movie and she asked me why anyone would watch something like that to which I replied that's why it was awesome. Also the NRA though I agree with several points that they have and have no intention of giving up my second amendment rights they have a strong tendency to be alarmists over nothing.

 

[iseko]

Greenpeace. They are retarded.

 

[Symp4thy]

College Hippies

 

[Puppeteer Putin]

Okay my fellow Escapists, I have a research paper to do in Advanced Composition class, and I'm doing it on the various groups who protest and wind up pissing people off than actually helping a cause

Oh, politicians/ opposition you mean? *sophisticated chortle*.

I can't think of any majorly disruptive protest groups, apart from those already mentioned. Once upon a time I would of suggested the Orange Order but they have kept themselves out of the spotlight for awhile.

I suppose the long-tail argument could apply here, very loosely but none the lees. There are so many different opinions and protests group that if a rally starts, there's usually another group of the same size or bigger that tells them to go shove it.

 

[RobinHood3000]

What are those seafaring folk who are basically considered a pirate organization? I forget what they're called.

 

[Baby Tea]

If Focus On The Family is what I think it is, then you are absolutely right, it's a bunch of fuckery.
Westboro Baptist Church is one of the leading causes of psychotic, blood-fueled rage in normally calm, detached people.

I hope you aren't coupling Focus on the Family with Westboro Baptist "church". Two WAY different groups (Though I do find 'Focus' to be pretty darn conservative...I like Sin City!)

As a Christian, I find Westboro Baptist the best example of bad protesters. Honestly, I have no idea how they can do what they do and call themselves Christians. It's really, really disgusting.

Also: PETA. Yeah, dressing up like a chained animal while running into the executives of a beef distributor/fast food franchise and yelling 'meat is murder!' isn't going to help your cause. I don't know anyone who is going to change their mind by watching a reject mascot covered in red paint get arrested for being an idiot.

 

[Vortigar]

There was that Bush protesting woman who camped outside the ranch. She went from being approved of to being tolerated to being reviled, right? (I could be mistaken, she popped up in the news a number of times across the ocean, I bet you had a better view of that one.)

To some people above:
Greenpeace isn't the worst out there, merely the largest of them (besides the uber-friendly WNF) so they end up in the news a lot. There are loads more radical nature protestors, but most act on a more local scale.

 

[Arsen]

I will just simply say I can't stand how people refuse to respect the law on the basis that they dislike "Christian Morality".

 

[Vortigar]

Oh yeah, try to find a random neo-nazi group who openly protests for their cause. Their very behaviour and dress style is usually very counter-productive, even if you take away what they're saying.

 

[Untamed Waters]

Okay my fellow Escapists, I have a research paper to do in Advanced Composition class, and I'm doing it on the various groups who protest and wind up pissing people off than actually helping a cause. I got the two obvious ones, PeTA and Westboro Baptist Church, but I need a few more ideas and i was just hoping that some of you guys would know. Any help is greatly appreciated.

The pro-lifers who bomb abortion clinics.

(Yeah, it sucks, especially when I'm pro-life. They're making me look bad man!)

Oh yeah, try to find a random neo-nazi group who openly protests for their cause. Their very behaviour and dress style is usually very counter-productive, even if you take away what they're saying.

Not nessecarily, from what I understand the Neo-nazi and KKK groups are starting to make somewhat of a comback. (Numberwise that is)

 

[curlycrouton]

Westboro Baptist Church

Argh, words cannot describe the hate I feel for those people.

 

[fix-the-spade]

Westboro Baptist Church

Being European I didn't have any idea they existed. How are they still a legal organisation?
Turning up, protesting and launching personal attacks at soldier's funerals would get you arrested in a flash here in England. It's one of the few things the Government/Police really do take offence to.

On the other hand because of them the Patriot Guard Riders was formed. Possibly the most positively imaged Biker gang on the planet.

 

[Mr Fatherland]

P.E.T.A
People Eat Tasty Animals

They just make me want to buy more fur.

 

[fuckwit]

Oh snap. Nice one, I see what you did there..