100% agree. In fact what really stands out to me about the current impolite protests is they’re _working_, they’re moving the needle.

The statue of Edward Colston they knocked down? It’s not coming up, which means little kids growing up in Bristol won’t be under its shadow.

If the protests were more polite that statue would still be there. Minneapolis wouldn’t be replacing its dirty police department. The whole thing would have been brushed under the rug by now.

Kneeling during the national anthem don't seem so bad now, does it, motherfuckers?

Protests are means, so they should be whatever is needed to achieve their end. If that means a given protest needs to be a "quiet, polite affair" then so be it. If it needs to be more confrontational, including the exercise of direct action and civil disobedience, then so be it.

One need not want to ignore a protest or a cause to want a given protest to be quiet and polite.

And I think this is in part Ms. Jones's point.

Ultimately, assuming a legitimate moral cause, the means of a protest movement, as opposed to a single protest, should evolve depending on how well the protest is motivating people to its cause, galvanizing support, and instituting or preventing the changes sought.

I didn't get all the way through the clip before the above clip and just watched the last part. Fuck yea.

And now I'm going to watch the recommended Bob's Big Boy commercial to cool down...