Two relevant points

Protesting, and reacting to protesting — a short note

Can we be clear — just because something is legal, or there’s a precedent for it, doesn’t mean it’s moral

Just because something is legal doesn’t mean it isn’t repugnant. Just because something is legal doesn’t mean it shouldn’t be peacefully protested, if you feel it’s wrong. Or if your moral code feels challenged by it. If your understanding of social conscience is affronted.

This applies to a ban on immigration just as much as it applies to legal abortions.

If you feel -protesting itself- is the problem, you yourself are in fact part of the problem.

If you feel the answer to people speaking in ways you don’t agree with is to try and suppress their right to speak, post, gather, or in general disagree with you, or you berate them just for the act of speaking out in either/any direction, I believe you’re part of the problem.

I have no tolerance for people bashing others because they protest, or how they peaceably, civilly protest. If you want to get together and wave signs about your desperate need for serious gender enforcement in our bathrooms, or because it makes you crazy that someone knelt instead of placed a hand over their heart… please feel free. You do your protest thing, and I’ll do mine.

If you berate someone for peaceably protesting, fuck you. If your only metric for something being okay is a quick check as to whether it’s technically legal or not, also fuck you.