If you're not able or are unwilling to protest in the streets, please do the actual protestors a favor

[MineralMan]

by not criticizing those who are. Each person decides for him or herself how they want to identify in such protests. If you're protesting in public, only you get to determine what message you present in your protest.

For those who are not participating, telling those who are what they should or should not do is nothing but patronizing them. It's presumptuous and will be scorned by those to go out there and take whatever risks there are by being present and making their protest.

You might think you know best what should be done and how protests should be conducted. You do not know and you have no business telling others what is OK and what is not.

If people protest, let them protest as they think best. Don't presume to tell the actual protestors how they should behave or what signs or flags they should carry or how they should dress.

If you think people should protest in a certain way, then go out into the street and protest that way. If you can't or won't do that, then leave those who can and do to comport themselves as they choose.

Thank you very much.