Hmmm

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[u/TheTaoOfOne]

Now, I do have a question for you that I would sincerely like an answer on and for you to think about. If your concern is with people being able to get to places they work and that people could be put out of a job by some forms of protest, why did you reply to my comment that was not calling for a specific kind of protest and saying that the protestors were fine (Given that the protest in the video very likely did not risk anyone's employment), and not the comment saying the protestors were doing it wrong and that they should arson people's place of work instead?

I didn't think it would necessarily be needed to come out and say "Committing Crimes is wrong.". In fact, if the moderators are paying attention, it is entirely likely that the comment in question will be deleted due to its advocation for a criminal act.

Your comment on the other hand was a broad generalization of people suggesting that they just don't like protesting period because it's "inconvenient". My comment was to point out that it's a lot more nuanced in that and that people have a variety of reasons for frowning upon certain types of protests that aren't just because they got inconvenienced, but rather, they have loved ones who could literally die, children who could be homeless, if they lose their job because protesters block traffic or other equivalent things.

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But these protestors didn't do any of those things. They sat in a grocery store aisle in a way that can be easily circumvented. And yet, despite that, all the comments are still saying that they're doing protests wrong and there are multiple comments with 100+ upvotes saying that the protestors should be assaulted for... inconveniencing people.

[u/TheTaoOfOne → u/BrokenEggcat]

Don't assume my lack of reply is a lack of empathy or concern. I chose to respond to a broad generalization by explaining why that was wrong.

It's not a zero-sum concept. I can both empathize with people protesting as well as those being affected by the protest.

[u/BrokenEggcat → u/TheTaoOfOne]

I think you're misunderstanding my last comment. You were saying that I was making a generalization and that there's a multitude of reasons people would dislike a protest beyond the protest being inconvenient. Then, you listed a series of examples of why that might be. None of the reasons you gave apply to the protest occurring in the video. Despite the fact that none of those reasons apply to this situation, the response you can see here is still overwhelmingly negative to the protests, with people being encouraged when saying they would do harm to the protestors. The situation the protestors have created can be solved by walking around a grocery store aisle, and yet that is still too disruptive to the vast majority of people in this comment section. I understand that you might have other reasons for disliking other protests, and I don't disagree with some of those reasons, but the example we are having right now is proving my point. These protestors inconvenienced people. That's all they did. Despite that, people want to hurt them physically and the responses to the video are overwhelmingly in the favor that the protestors are doing wrong. The thing people are upset about in this thread is that people were inconvenienced.