Animal-rights activists have been ridiculed for interrupting the NBA playoffs. They’re in good company. zakcheneyrice writes on how all protests start out as marginal but don't necessarily stay that way
An animal-rights protester tries gluing her hand to the basketball court during a Minnesota Timberwolves game. Photo: Carlos Gonzalez/Star Tribune via Getty Images During the third quarter of Saturday’s NBA playoff game between the Minnesota Timberwolves and the Memphis Grizzlies, a spectator named Sasha Zemmel jumped out of her seat, rushed onto the court, and was promptly slammed to the floor by a security guard.
It was easy to forget, for a moment, that most protests do not inspire polarizing views one way or another. The bulk are regarded, if they are regarded at all, with a mix of skepticism, annoyance, and indifference. The last wave gave us iconic images — Edward Crawford throwing a tear-gas canister and Jacob Chansley prowling the halls of Congress, each wearing American-flag patterns — reminiscent of the clashes and factions that defined the civil-rights movement of the 1950s and ’60s.
The peculiar case of Black Lives Matter — a crude catchall term for the assortment of anti-racism activity that caught the public’s attention after Trayvon Martin was killed in 2012 — showcases another drawback: the scapegoating that comes with going mainstream. Almost from the moment it started to be seen as good for lawmakers and businesses to align themselves with the movement, protesters started to get blamed for their long-standing failures.
When Zemmel got tackled over the weekend, she was in this unglamorous position of sacrificing her body, and maybe some of her dignity, for a cause that lots of people seem to support but that remains stubbornly status quo. According to a 2020 public-opinion survey commissioned by the ASPCA, large majorities of Americans really are worried about the safety risks posed by industrial animal agriculture.
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