When members of the Black Lives Matter movement hijacked the stage at a Bernie Sanders rally, people got mad. That anger was similar to the anger that sprang up in forums and comment sections all across the Internet after it was reported that a black man had shot at police officers during a peaceful protest in Ferguson, Missouri, honoring the one-year anniversary of Michael Brown's death.

The general reaction to these events across the Internet was, to me, fascinating. I'd never really seen anything like it before. I don't want to call it racism, but it was sinister. It wasn't horrifying, but it was deplorable. It wasn't loud, vocal hatred and disgust of a race. No, it was a calm, even-toned condescension, the kind a disappointed parent would lob at a mischievous teen going through a rebellious phase. The general consensus could be summed up by saying, "You're not helping."

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And that's true, on the surface. Yeah, Bernie Sanders maybe isn't the best protest target.

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Look at him. Don't you just want to soak his dentures and make sure he drinks his Ensure?

And firing shots at cops probably isn't going to be healing wounds as much as causing countless new ones. But the reason these things even happened to begin with seems to elude most people. In order to understand the why, you have to understand the complicated reasons people are driven to such actions.