CAA NRC Protests - Why are children and infants being projected as the face of the protests?
Use of children and infants as the face of the protests is the new low among world and Indian protestors, and especially left. The rise of Greta Thunberg is one of the examples that how it serves multiple purposes. In Indian media, this disease has been started. From last two days, we are constantly getting news that how ‘brave’ women are protesting against the ‘archaic’ CAA law with their 20 days old and 30 days old infants. Few media houses went one step ahead and covered that how the infants are not being breastfed for days as their parents are protesting against the government. For them, this is instance of the bravery. In logistics, I learnt one argumentum ad populum (Latin phrase) which means appeal to people. Take an example of Farhan Akhtar who replied that so many people are protesting against this which means this must be wrong. But after this much use of children and infants in the protests, I have slightly changed it to argumentum ad infantulum...