One can reasonably argue that the current protests about police violence and racism are good, and April’s protests about lockdowns of business and society were bad. But the problem is this: The liberals attacking the conservative anti-lockdown protesters in April tried to claim they weren’t simply disagreeing with those protesters — that would be a petty argument. Instead, the critics claimed that they were objecting to the very act of protest amid a pandemic.
So now that most of the media is pro-protest (I am still pro-protest), it’s not satisfactory to say, “This cause is more worthy than that cause.” Their very objection in April was to protest itself. The problem isn’t that our media went from pro-lockdown to anti-racism. That’s normal. The problem is our media went from anti-protest to pro-protest.
