Protesters Claim Fatigue, Demand Compensation
People Experiencing Marching are getting tired, say media reports. Lives may Matter, say protesters, but are people paying attention to mine?
Media Interviewer: What are you marching for?
Protester: Respect, housing, guaranteed income, platforms, neuro-variant rights, POC, inclusion, attention. And I, like, come home exhausted every day. Stopping traffic on the street today, I almost got run over by a climate-changing polluting car.”
“It was driving on a street?”
“Yeah, right through the intersectionality where our allyship was holding banners.”
“Oh.”
“I'm so exhausted. I don't get enough attention, income, sleep, I've missed job interviews, I've been dis-respected ...”
“If you went to the job interviews, might you get a job, income and respect?”
“That's an offensively ablist remark. I've got PTSD.”
“Oh. And your traumatic stress is “post” what?”
“Protesting. I'm seeking compensation.”
“From whom?”
“This shitty, privileged, colonialist, white supremacist country. I'm going to court.”
“Expensive.”
“My allyship will pay.”
“Ah.”
“Protest Fatigue is a thing. It should be in the DMSO list of victims' disorders.”
“Victims of what?”
“Social Injustice. Bias. The government needs to compensate historically marginalized, de-centered two-spirited racialized protesters.”
“So, compensation for anyone who holds up a protest placard about ... anything?”
“That's
ridiculous. I'm talking about my things.”
