I'm very curious how you calculated your ratio and what you consider to be an acceptable percentage of **** in a crowd before it becomes a problem?
There's
**** in every crowd, and every one of these mass-disturbance protests creates a problem for somebody.
I think there's a tendency for people to rationalize/excuse/minimize the problems created by protests they're sympathetic to, while harshly critical of protests they don't support. The people blocking the Alberta border crossing at Coutts were probably mad as hell when the native pipeline protesters disrupted rail freight in 2020, for instance.
I think that all of these mass-disturbance protests do more harm than good to the cause they're intended to support.
I saw a clip from England a while back where environmental protesters had blocked off a roadway and there was a woman screaming for them to let her through so that she could get her mother to the hospital. Unless you're completely unhinged, when you watch something like that your thoughts are "what if it was my mom who needed to get to the hospital and I couldn't get her there?" "What if my kid was working at that Starbucks when those hooligans smashed it up?" "What if it was my store that was looted or burned down?" "What if it was my kid who those anti-mask idiots were threatening?"
Normal sane people don't empathize with the cause warriors in these situations, no matter how noble the cause. Normal sane people empathize with the people who are just trying to live their lives or do their jobs and find themselves in these situations through no fault of their own.
-k