Re:So this is America?
by mkross on Friday February 18, 2011 @12:22AM
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Assuming the article is correct (and the video seems to back that up), I wouldn't even consider this protesting. Yelling over Clinton's speech, holding up signs, harassing people going to the speech, throwing shoes -- these are all protests. Quietly standing with your back to the speaker? Not a chance.
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I would call it a protest, a silent one, and with some degree of effect as well especially if cameras ever showed the audience. However, such prompt removal for such a passive/peaceful gesture is troubling.
I suppose when Rosa Parks quietly sat at the front of the bus she wasn't protesting either.