It may be a big, unwieldy tent, but it's the protest that matters
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What is happening now in this country is not a tidy little scuffle. We need folks to wake up and join the opposition in whatever way is closest to their hearts.
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Mitch Ryerson
Cambridge
Time for moderates to get over their discomfort and get in the scrum
In her June 13 op-ed, 'This isn't how to change minds,' Carine Hajjar lamented that protests against Immigration and Customs Enforcement were alienating 'moderate Americans,' implicitly excusing moderates from standing up against President Trump's abuses of power. That any improper actions by protesters might be used by moderates to avoid taking sides against greater injustices perpetrated by our government has long been a moral failing in times of conflict, as famously called out by Martin Luther King Jr. in his 1963
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I condemn violent protest. But I more vehemently condemn moderates who take the first sign of anything they find objectionable at a protest as an excuse not to address the injustices that triggered the protest. The Trump administration has defied court orders, broken up nonviolent families, violated due process, and brutalized dissenters, including a US senator.
Moderates are obligated to (peacefully) fight these abuses of power. They are obligated to do this even if some people protesting those abuses act stupidly or even illegally. The presence of keffiyehs at a protest does not excuse moderates from fighting the humanitarian abuses, carried out on their behalf, by the state. Moderates must demand justice and stand up to authoritarianism regardless of the left's choice of neckwear.
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