Posted by Dinah on December 9, 2011, at 20:54:07
In reply to Re: The Psychology of Occupy Wall Street, posted by Solstice on December 8, 2011, at 14:46:52
I don't think it really gained any momentum in our area.
I think I'd feel better about the movement if they would quit claiming to speak for the 99%. I'm one of the 99% too, and they don't have my permission to speak for me. Nor would they be doing a good job of it.
I did think of staging a counterprotest if I had heard of any occupying of retailers on Black Friday. I don't even shop on Black Friday (and as seldom as possible on any day), but I'd have made a special effort to go out and patronize any store targeted. I was *that* angry. However, I didn't hear of any local activity.
I'd like it better if they claimed to speak for themselves and admitted that they were pushing the ideas *they* think best for the 99%. I have an automatic aversion to anyone claiming to speak for me, particularly if they really aren't. My kneejerk reaction to seeing someone carrying a placard saying they are the 99% is to jump up and down and screech that they may be part of the 99%, but the 99% is not a monolith and they do not speak for me.
Sigh. I be very bad at making slogans. I'd fill them so full of disclaimers, they'd sound like a Prozac commercial.
*** I am speaking only for myself, part of the 99%, and do not have the authority or ability to speak for any other part of the 99%. Nor do I have the right to suggest that my views would not be acceptable to some part of the 1%, who are not a monolith and who probably represent a wide range of views.
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