I’m pro peace.
You can protest anything you want, peacefully. As a photographer, I just want to do my job, edit/file my pictures to my agency, send an invoice, and return to my wife and daughter.
I want boring, peaceful days.
Not violence.
These have not been peaceful protests.
Photographers want peace for the $$, not the cause. Got it.
My purpose is to take pictures, and I get compensation for it.
I accept assignments based on availability and risk tolerance
Not sure what the issue is?
PEACEFUL PROTESTS? DREAM ON. BITCOIN IS REALITY.
I live in America where peaceful protests are legal and violence is not. Seems like those laws will begin being enforced with this new administration 🤙🏻
They are wasting their parents’ money holding sit-ins protesting against their colleges, targeting professors, damaging buildings, and threatening other students and preventing them from going to classes. They think a moronic “divestment” campaign that hasn’t worked and will never work is going to somehow make a difference. It’s some of the most over-privileged nonsense I’ve ever seen.
If they really want to protest, they should drop out of school and march in front of the White House or something.
There should just be QR codes posted at every demonstration where they can quickly volunteer + sign up for any war effort that they feel strongly enough to give their lives to across the world.
You can’t hide your face and hold up a “Glory to the martyrs” sign directly supporting murder and expect there to be no consequences. Go send your tuition money directly to Hamas if you feel that strongly. In fact, just send it to Iran since that’s where all the campus protest funding is coming from in the first place. 
Basically, yes, this is the problem.
If your message has any weight or significance, you don’t need to scream, or be violent.
The loudest people are frequently the ones with the least to say.
There’s a reason these protests happen at Columbia University and not CUNY up the street. The students at City College are just there to learn how to be productive members of society, not trust fund babies getting a $70K/year free ride.
As a lifelong New Yorker who went to public school most of his life, I have found an equilibrium living and interacting with people different than me.
I’ve learned there’s good and bad people from every walk of life, and it’s safe to assume that if I don’t vibe with you, it’s not because you’re black, gay, whatever… it’s because you’re an asshole.
Anybody who isn’t up for a conversation is mentally weak, and you shouldn’t take them or their cause seriously
Sure, but the 1st amendment exists for a reason
The First Amendment doesn’t include property damage, obstruction of buildings and public spaces, and threats of physical harm.
You sure?
There were race riots throughout the summer of 2020 that would dramatically counter your argument.
I believe in the 1st amendment.
I also believe in speaking with people I disagree with so that one or both of us can learn something.
What’s happening now though, it’s not civil discourse… but rather, “believe as I believe or you’re a wrong, and a Nazi”
No replacement for civil discourse… and most are unable to do it without holding back emotions
Sometimes the jokes just write themselves. 🏳️🌈🇵🇸
