[quote=millennial]No I get it. I’m just saying that she uses these terms that are based on her definition (for instance intellectual and protest) which makes it difficult to understand her initial post. Using her definition they would not be considered protesting…end of story because there is no goal. But according to mine they are protesting and it’s because they want to show and express their personal emotions and display it as a unified front to those in the south and Midwest. This in my mind is a protest.[/quote]

Funny – in your last sentence you used the words “In my mind”, which are exactly the words I used at the beginning of the first paragraph that you quoted. I started the second paragraph of that quote with the words “in my opinion”. And I guess I should have said “political protest” – I am quite aware of the fact that one can protest against the quality of restaurant service, the theme for 6th grade promotion, the winner on America’s Got Talent or whatever. I never purported to define anything.

Last I checked I was still entitled to my opinion just as you are entitled to yours. IN MY OPINION (and to paraphrase a line from A Fish Called Wanda) calling these marches political protests is an insult to what IN MY OPINION are true political protests, such as those relating to abuses by the police, our continued participation in various wars or even CA’s policies on admission of in state vs out of state vs international students.

These people are grieving and mourning IN MY OPINION, and people don’t usually walk through the streets to do it. For some reason IN MY OPINION they equate a disappointing albeit fair loss with somehow being cheated by someone. Is that better?