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> Protesting against a country does not make a protester a threat.

Indeed but protesting a country happens at an embassy or on some public square usually used for rallies.

Let's draw a comparison: I don't like Trump but I don't go and beat up some random on the street for wearing an American flag, I go and protest in front of the local embassy (which, for the record, I actually did during his first term when Heather Heyer was murdered. Man, time flies.) I also don't go and throw rocks through the window of a McDonalds (something that happened to many Jewish restaurants), I also don't go and throw incendiary bombs on the nearest Evangelical church, and for fucks sake I also don't take a gun and shoot someone leaving the embassy like in yesterday's double murder of Jews in Washington.



Protesting a war can happen anywhere, not just an embassy. And universities are ground zero for student protests.

You conflated violent actions with protest.




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