Again: this is an elite freak-out over people exercising their free speech rights in perfectly reasonably, peaceful ways.https://twitter.com/joshtpm/status/1523877267264487426 …
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Big picture: American women are going to lose a major right. That's a travesty & everyone (even those who support this) understand on some level that it's going to spark righteous anger. To delegitimize this anger, elite is concocting fantasies of violence
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It shouldn't really matter where you stand on abortion. You have to accept that people have a right to peacefully (even if loudly) protest public officials. The move to delegitimize this protest using lies (i.e. Alito's family had to flee) is outrageous
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However flawed & limited USA democracy has been, it's long had one great silver lining: robust free speech culture & right to organize & protest. The pushback against protesting at this moment would deny even that, which makes all the other democratic regressions even worse.
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In retrospect, the mass movements of the Trump era, peaking with the George Floyd protests, freaked out elites (not just the GOP). What we've seen since has been attempt to put the genie back in the bottle.
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Ok, but did they help get people elected to make the changes they want? Undoing the overturning of Roe is only going to happen by winning elections. I think the protests at the justices houses are counterproductive.
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Was it the job of the protesters to win elections or the job of the Democratic candidates?
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That is a fair point, but did the protests make their job harder? And yes the job of the protests, and all actions, needs to be to help win elections. That is the only way to achieve change.
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