ITT we have someone who's never been in a protest telling people who've been in them how they should be run.
Mentioned this quote before, may as well post the whole thing now:
Martin Luther King, Jr:
"First, I must confess that over the last few years I have been gravely disappointed with the white moderate. I have almost reached the regrettable conclusion that the Negro's great stumbling block in the stride toward freedom is not the White Citizen's Council-er or the Ku Klux Klanner, but the white moderate who is more devoted to "order" than to justice; who prefers a negative peace which is the absence of tension to a positive peace which is the presence of justice; who constantly says "I agree with you in the goal you seek, but I can't agree with your methods of direct action;" who paternalistically feels he can set the timetable for another man's freedom; who lives by the myth of time and who constantly advises the Negro to wait until a "more convenient season."
Shallow understanding from people of goodwill is more frustrating than absolute misunderstanding from people of ill will. Lukewarm acceptance is much more bewildering than outright rejection."
This obviously applies to things far wider reaching than race. If you acknowledge that injustice exists, you have a moral imperative to either help end it, or get out of the way. The "aww shucks fellas, couldn't you turn down your loudspeakers?" brigade never gets anything done.
Women's Suffrage? Protests
Abolition? Protests
Desegregation? Protests
Voting Rights Act? Protests
Abortion rights? Protests
Gay Marriage rights? Protests
Ending the Vietnam War? Protests
Ending police violence in the 60s, 70s, 80s, 90s, 00s, and 10s? Protests (A work in progress)
Even Occupy Wall Street, which failed, prompted a brutal crackdown by the NYPD and infiltration by the FBI. And it could be argued that they allowed themselves to be silenced and ignored by being so accommodating.
If Donald Trump's response to criticism is suing newspapers and beating up protesters, he is not fit to be president of the United States.
