I think protests are fine, a virtual necessity and sign of become adult and sharing the responsibilities and concerns of their fellow citizens and our immediate world. Don’t kill or main anybody and you’re good with me.*<\/p>\n
But I have questions. Like, what are the protesters’ aims? I mean practical<\/em> aims. Are they trying to win the rest of us over to their point of view? If so, does their methodology work?<\/p>\n What do they want me to do<\/em> with their protest grievances? If offing Jews are on the top of the list, well, you’ll understand why I’m not in support of that item.<\/p>\n Thus I found what follows, from Harper’s Weekly Review, similarly bewildering, maybe even a model for questions about protests. Like…huh? Also, laughter.<\/p>\n In London, two octogenarian \u201cJust Stop Oil\u201d protesters used a hammer and chisel to break the glass around the Magna Carta, a 13th-century document that the travel site Lonely Planet describes as \u201cstill-powerful.\u201d** Around 800 anticapitalist \u201cDisrupt\u201d protesters attempted to break into a Tesla factory in Germany, and four members of Extinction Rebellion interrupted the Westminster dog show agility course. \u201cWe disrupt things we love,\u201d said one of the climate protesters.<\/em><\/p>\n *I don’t blame protesters for police actions against them.<\/p>\n **”Still-powerful”??? Would Lonely Planet like to re-phrase that?<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I think protests are fine, a virtual necessity and sign of become adult and sharing the responsibilities and concerns of their fellow citizens and our immediate world. Don’t kill or main anybody and you’re good with me.* But I have … Continue reading