No protest is peaceful
During my time at university, there was a protest at my school that led to an eight-month suspension. The protest resulted in significant damage to the school senate building, which was one of the best in West Africa, as well as the destruction of the lecturers' cars. As a result, the school had to send us all home for eight months. When we returned to school, each student had to pay a significant amount for reparations, regardless of whether they were involved in the protest or not.
The majority of the students planned to peacefully protest in order to convey their demands to the school authorities. However, they are unaware that there are individuals with a completely different agenda. If we were all united and spoke with one voice, we could achieve our goal. This way, the school wouldn't have wasted 8 months of my life, and the same holds true for most students who are not at fault. I can already see a similar pattern in the ongoing protests in Nigeria against the poor government and economic hardships.
Frustration can't bear peace.
What leads to protest most of the time is frustration and any situation that leads to People protesting is already becoming unbearable but we all process things differently. The way I will process things that hurt me will be different from the way another person will process them. Some people are very good when it comes to handling emotions and when they are protesting they just want people to listen to them but some people on the other hand always let their emotions get out of hand during protests, they are led by the spirited atmosphere and beginning to do the unthinkable.
The truth is that some people are not concerned about the protest. All they see are opportunities to fuel their hate, unleash their anger, and most importantly, fill their pockets. This group doesn't really care about the masses or the outcome of peaceful protests. They also don't care about the outcome and they want is to loot, kill, and destroy properties. They simply want to do what their hearts desire, and others don't really matter to them. Most times, these individuals are the reason why most protests fail, and why some people avoid protests entirely, as it's always hard to predict the outcome of any protest.
No peace, no protest
Nothing born out of frustration brings peace. Protest is like a fire that can escalate at any given time. The tension can be managed, but the longer the protest, the more dangerous it gets. Some Nigerian protesters are already looting and stealing in some parts of the country, which has resulted in police taking drastic action, and this is just the first day. There is no peaceful protest anywhere, but the tension can be managed because everyone will come with different motives and some people will come with no motives at all and plan to just follow anything the crowd decides. But I still believe it is the best way to voice out your opinion but I don't believe in peaceful protest.
Thanks for your time.
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For me protest is the only way to voice out your opinion
I agree with you l but I don't why people wait till it leads to that.
It's hard to see peaceful protest and it works well if it does happen that way. However, I do agree that it is easy to have a few bad actors that cause a lot of trouble. It's easy to spur a crowd that doesn't know what its doing to do a mistake.
There is nothing like peaceful protest and i wish we have better way to resolve things
In my opinion; I agree with you on the concept of protest aside that it isn't the best way to voice your opinion, evey other thing is true, in a hot environment you should expect hot actions, you don't expect to have bitter memories in your mind and keep yourself together, there a limit anyone can take before they loose it and try to fight back which is a response for defense it's quite normal, that's why a protest is the worst way of voicing your opinion because being surrounded by like minds produces courage and that gives birth to action which gives birth to more action on till it's cut out.
The best way in my opinion is through written media, or videos that reduces the crowd but still bring awareness about their needs at least that will reduce the violence for the growth to respond quickly, because a physical movement is surely going to cause a lot of hazards.
Protests are a good way for people to voice out their emotions and feelings, but this always tends to get out of hand because many can't really control or manage their emotions well. I think at the heat of the money, people can just lose it and start doing crazy things, bad actors will also fuel the fire with their nefarious intentions.
Sometimes what motivates them is more than just the money, for some is just the hate and pain
There's truly no peaceful protest. I think the one we're currently doing will not yield any results and that's because the person we call our president doesn't regard this at all.
If the protest should continue like this without the government saying anything it would be very dangerous