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Anyway, here's something I feel like not enough people are saying: Regardless of whether or not you agree with #BlackLivesMatter, we're not these protesters' fucking moms. It's not our job to make sure they're polite. Social change and protest is messy, in part because it's exposing a mess. They're pulling up a rug that hides a lot of dust and dirt and blood and muck and other things we'd rather continue to pretend isn't there. But that doesn't mean we get to sit in our overstuffed chairs with our feet up on the coffee table saying, "Oh, no no no, you're pulling the rug back all wrong. You have to lift and tug and -- oh, Christ, just stop. Just stop. Don't even bother pulling the rug back if you're going to do it that way. No equal rights for you until you learn some manners, young lady."

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"We're not talking about a single hate crime until you pull your pants up!"

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Let's be honest with ourselves for a second: The best part of having an opinion is angrily winning an argument. Triumphantly putting someone else in their place. Hurting someone we disagree with, and being able to be extra mean because we know they're wrong about something important, and they had it coming. It's one of the darkest part of human nature, and we indulge it every time we pretend we give a shit about the first amendment when really we just like being condescending. I guess what I'm saying is that it's going to be really embarrassing to explain to the youth of the future that in my day, the people demonstrating in the street were called enemies of free speech.

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JF Sargent is an editor and columnist for Cracked. Follow him on Twitter and Facebook.

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