I got my pitchfork of peace, let's go!!🌈🔱

Seriously though, I totally second your rage. How are we living the a world where some people are being assaulted and disappeared while working for slave-wages, while other people are outrages that they can't find that rare Pokemon card pack?

That is why I support protests a priori - they are the real foot-soldier of change and defending the weaker-marginalized communities - sometimes the only remaining means to be heard is resistance and public disobedience. When that gets taken away, there is only violence that remains.

I never participated in a protest of any kind - I don't like being in large crowds - call it PTSD from growing up in a country where public places sometimes go 💥.
But I admire people who can sacrifice their study or work and organize to march and resist - fully aware of the possibility of bodily injury or a crowd stampede.

I also support solo actors like Luigi, some people are privileged to be more effective standing alone. Never targeting any random people - but going right after the power. But if anyone is going to stand alone and carry the weight of representing a whole class of people, they need to be absolutely blameless - like Luigi. Otherwise their message will be lost in "oh they were "---" (insert foreign ethnicity)" or "oh he was just an incel" or "oh she had a DUI" , etc - Bottom line is don't go vigilante if you can be taken out of context in any way (that means most of us).

As for your plea for Empathy, I'm afraid that the media and people in power have learned how to grind off our ability to empathize - Now they say "Empathy is 'soy' behavior", the very people who think themselves to be 'stoics' are going around calling themselves 'Alpha', prominent FOX anchors are saying "Lets own the label 'Nazi" - everything is so upside down - that even Orwell cant keep up.

Anyway, before my comment is in danger of becoming a post, I will leave it here.
Thank you for stirring the waters and hopefully the ripples will spread.

🤗