There's a fundamental difference between protesting systemic racism or police reform, and protesting a pandemic lockdown. If take out Antifa and the guys with Confederate flags from both sides, the core issues are really apples to oranges.
When you call it a pandemic lockdown it really doesn't do justice to the destruction and impact of millions of peoples lives, families, and future. Especially, when looking in hindsight, a lot of the lockdown policies across the country were statistically unnecessary to be continued for months on end. Both issues deserve protest. Both issues are/were results of serious mishandling of issues by government officials that led to . When it comes down to the individual, millions of individuals, whose lives were being slowly destructed because of arbitrary rules...that deserves protest. There's no caveat to the right to protest that identifies issues by their perceived seriousness, thats what the right to protest is, the right of an individual to air out their grievances.
And the protests were allowed to happen for both issues. Its the media's response thats frusturating...the crowd that wanted to get back to work was identified as being recklessly spreading the plague with no regard for public health. That narrative dropped for these current protests...completely. Its not even an issue. And, on top of that, many of the political elite and media personalities who demanded that we stayed locked up for the public good did NOT themselves follow those rules, even when they were actually infected. The
you follow these rules while we do what we want is what I think really got under a lot of people skin.
