• Get involved.
    We want your input!
    Apply for Membership and join the conversations about everything related to broadcasting.

    After we receive your registration, a moderator will review it. After your registration is approved, you will be permitted to post.
    If you use a disposable or false email address, your registration will be rejected.

    After your membership is approved, please take a minute to tell us a little bit about yourself.
    https://www.radiodiscussions.com/forums/introduce-yourself.1088/

    Thanks in advance and have fun!
    RadioDiscussions Administrators

Protests without a Draft: The anti-war movement is energized

V

Varulven

Inactive
Inactive User
The Draft energized the anti-Viet Nam sentiment; Bush has energized the anti-Iraq sentiment:
http://www.comcast.net/news/index.jsp?cat=GENERAL&fn=/2007/01/28/572831.html&cvqh=itn_protest

Crowds on Both Coasts Protest Iraq War
By CALVIN WOODWARD and LARRY MARGASAK, Associated Press Writers

"WASHINGTON - Convinced this is their moment, tens of thousands marched Saturday in an anti-war demonstration linking military families, ordinary people and an icon of the Vietnam protest movement in a spirited call to get out of Iraq.

Air Force Staff Sgt. Tassi McKee, 26, an intelligence specialist at Fort Meade, Md., said she joined the Air Force because of patriotism, travel and money for college. "After we went to Iraq, I began to see through the lies," she said."
 
"Anti" is so very, very negative!

It draws the lines too clearly and absolutely turns a few people on but equally turns lots of people off. These neophytes need to learn from professional agitators!

Some examples:

If you're against women having abortions, you're not "anti-abortion" - you're "Pro-Life".

If you're in favor of allowing women to have abortions, you're not "anti-life" - you're "Pro-Choice".

So it follows that "anti-war" might make it but can never make it big.

It needs something positive in the title.

How about:

Pro-insurgent? Insurgent has kind of a positive ring to it.

Pro-terrorist? -- not gonna work. Not because terrorists don't have a substantial constitutency (wake up - I mean worldwide), rather because too many people are in denial that there actually are any terrorists.

Pro-appeasement? Nawwww....too many syllables in "appeasement" for most of the public to comprehend. An awful lot of people think "appeasement" (if they've ever heard the word) means the act of standing outside an old airplane waving a sheet of paper. In the cold.

Pro-peace? That'll work until the protests turn violent then it becomes an oxymoron. Ya really don't wanna title you'll have to change later.

Wouldn't it be wonderful if, on this forum, somebody came up with a positive term for the anti-Iraq-war movement that the networks adopted as their own?

Like the song says....

"Accen-tu-ate the Positive......"


Rember nit-pickers, ye can copyright a lyric but ye canna copyright a title!
 
Status
This thread has been closed due to inactivity. You can create a new thread to discuss this topic.
Back
Top Bottom