With the protests to end the lockdowns, the main pictures I’ve seen
in my social media bubble have been ones with signs like
”I
need a haircut” or ”
Let
my People Golf”. So it’s not surprising that people would be
writing responses like
annacaffeina’s:
People aren’t out protesting to be waitresses and hairdressers
again. People are out demanding that their waitresses and hairdressers
go back to work. The idea is to force the service industry to serve
them despite the risk to the servers.
This seemed unlikely to me: the financial strain of not being able to
work is something I’ve seen my conservative friends posting about a
lot. Since the signs we see are generally coming through multiple
layers of filters, primarily for being interesting and controversial,
I wanted to try and get a more representative sample of what people
actually had on their signs.
I ran an image search for [reopen protests] and looked for pictures
that had a lot of signs. I picked ones that had as many legible signs
as possible, and where it didn’t look like the photographer was trying
to feature a specific sign. I ended up with the text of 71 signs.
Most of the signs were generic pro-reopening ones (“Reopen NC”, “Stop
the Shutdown”). The most common theme was the constitution (“Gov’t
can’t Suspend the Constitution”, “1st Amendment—The right to
peacably assemble”, “We The People”) with nine signs, followed by
references to tyranny (“Tyranny Is When You Restrict The Movement Of
Healthy People”, “Tyranny Calls Itself Safety”) and freedom (“Free
People Make Free Choices”, “We Demand Freedom”) with six each.
On the motivating question, I counted four signs about wanting to work
(“Let Us Work / Let Us Live”, “Re-Open NC /Let Us Get Back To Work”,
“We Want to Work”, and “If It Pleases The Crown May We Go To Work”),
three about wanting to let others work for their own benefit
(“We can do Both / Save Lives / Save Jobs”, “Poverty Kills”, “Let’Em
Work / Let’Em Live”), and none about wanting others to go back to
work for one’s own benefit.
Reopen Protest Sign Survey
Link post
With the protests to end the lockdowns, the main pictures I’ve seen in my social media bubble have been ones with signs like ” I need a haircut” or ” Let my People Golf”. So it’s not surprising that people would be writing responses like annacaffeina’s:
This seemed unlikely to me: the financial strain of not being able to work is something I’ve seen my conservative friends posting about a lot. Since the signs we see are generally coming through multiple layers of filters, primarily for being interesting and controversial, I wanted to try and get a more representative sample of what people actually had on their signs.
I ran an image search for [reopen protests] and looked for pictures that had a lot of signs. I picked ones that had as many legible signs as possible, and where it didn’t look like the photographer was trying to feature a specific sign. I ended up with the text of 71 signs.
Most of the signs were generic pro-reopening ones (“Reopen NC”, “Stop the Shutdown”). The most common theme was the constitution (“Gov’t can’t Suspend the Constitution”, “1st Amendment—The right to peacably assemble”, “We The People”) with nine signs, followed by references to tyranny (“Tyranny Is When You Restrict The Movement Of Healthy People”, “Tyranny Calls Itself Safety”) and freedom (“Free People Make Free Choices”, “We Demand Freedom”) with six each.
On the motivating question, I counted four signs about wanting to work (“Let Us Work / Let Us Live”, “Re-Open NC /Let Us Get Back To Work”, “We Want to Work”, and “If It Pleases The Crown May We Go To Work”), three about wanting to let others work for their own benefit (“We can do Both / Save Lives / Save Jobs”, “Poverty Kills”, “Let’Em Work / Let’Em Live”), and none about wanting others to go back to work for one’s own benefit.
Here’s the full list:
Wyoming Protest (18):
North Carolina Protest (14):Reopen Wyoming Now!!
Re-open Wyoming
We can do Both
Save Lives
Save Jobs
Stop the Shutdown
God Gives Gov’t Takes
Life of Lock-up
Gov’t can’t Suspend the Constitution
Stop following other States
Wyoming is full of Leaders
Let’s Lead
Faith Over Fear
Keep Wyoming Economy Open
Open
Poverty Kills
Spread Facts not fear
My Constitutional Rights are Essential
1st Amendment—The right to peacably assemble
Your Solution is worse than the problem
Free People Make Free Choices
All Businesses are Essential
More North Carolina (21):#ReopenNC
#WeThePeople
America Strong
Let Us Work
Let Us Live
Reopen Our Lives
Reopen NC
Freedom Over Fear
Re-Open NC
Let Us Get Back To Work
Absolute Power Corrupts!
Reopen NC
Losing Your Rights
Preventable Disease
Facts Not Fear
Reopen NC
More Harm Then Good
Every Business Is Essential
We The People
Free People Make Their Own Risk Assessments #ReopenNC
Florida Protest (11):You Woke a Sleeping Giant
Tyranny Calls Itself Safety
Shutdown Is Tyranny
Shutdown Is Based On Lies!!
Reopen Now
No Mandatory Vaccines
ReOpen with GA, TN, SC
Fear God Not Covid
Do Not Consent to Tyranny
Re-Open NC
Reopen Our State Before Its Too Late
Obedience To A Lying Government Is Not Virtue
You Are In Violation Of My Constitutional Rights
Make America Constitutional Again
We the People Want To #ReopenNC
Just Say No Socialism
By We The People
No Fauci
No Gates
No Vaccine
Let’Em Work
Let’Em Live
My Rights Are Essential #ReopenNC
Stop Gov’T Overreach
Freedom Is Essential
Politicians Are Not
Minnesota Protest (7):Re-Open Florida
Never accept the Government Infringing Upon Your Freedom As Necessary or Justified
Plandemic
Small Business is Essential #ReopenFL
When Tyranny Becomes Law Rebellion Becomes Duty #ReopenUSA
Stay Home
Promote Unemployment
Tyranny Is When You Restrict The Movement Of Healthy People
There Is No Virus Clause In The Constitition Reopen Florida
Don’t Tread On Me
Trump Pence
Fauci Lied About Death Toll & Oppressed America For Pharma-Tyranny Nazism
Open
Stay Home MN [in a red circle with a line through it]
Free The Humans
We Want to Work
If It Pleases The Crown May We Go To Work
We Demand Freedom
Planned Parenthood Is Not Essential
Open Minnesota
Facts + Faith Over Fear
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