We dissent
Just a thought for those trying to figure out what&#x27;s going on: If you find what the protest movements are doing to be challenging, that&#x27;s the idea.<p>Much social change begins this way; it&#x27;s like disruption in tech. People find the whole idea of it challenging to their worldview and comfortable status quo, and they (we) respond predictably - angry, scared, dimissive. It&#x27;s <i>heresy</i>. But if the status quo worked so well, we wouldn&#x27;t need social change. In some cases, people get the idea and come around and what was heresy becomes the new status quo (for the next generation to up end, upsetting the current protestors when they are older and settled). It&#x27;s similar to early adoption of disruptive technology.<p>That doesn&#x27;t make every disruptive idea, socially or in tech, good, but the fact that it disrupts your social ideas is not, in itself, problematic.<p>For myself, when I feel myself responding that way, I try to take it as a sign that there&#x27;s something beyond my perspective that I don&#x27;t understand.