One month ago I was widely attacked for suggesting that protesters attending rallies to oppose the loss of their jobs, businesses and First Amendment freedoms due to government lockdowns should behave like a “modern day Rosa Parks.”
How dare I compare “right wing protesters” with one of America’s great civil rights icons? This was “racist” and I was commanded to apologize. “Saturday Night Live” even parodied my reference to the nonviolence of Rose Parks.
No one bothered to take note that I wrote my college thesis about civil disobedience and the rich American tradition of nonviolent protest as an effective way to redress government injustice. I referenced such heroic figures as Henry David Thoreau, Martin Luther King, Gandhi and, yes, Rosa Parks.
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