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> most people have expressed to me that it was rude for there to be protestors at the coronation...

Yes, it was.

> But that's the point of protest!!

No, it is not.

From Cambridge Dictionary: "protest": a strong complaint expressing disagreement, disapproval, or opposition.

You can express your dissenting opinions without being rude. And, by the way, the monarchy has been in UK for centuries, and it is still there: if you don't like it, you have any day available to protest. No need to pick that particular day when you can be most disruptive.

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Any protest is infinitely less rude than expecting others to give you special treatment because your ancestors were bigger dicks than others.

Nobody is condemning the rudeness against the royal family, but against all the people who like to give special treatment to the royal family for whatever reason, and especially to all the people who just want to keep giving special treatment to the royal family because it has been so since their grandparents were born.

Those people are complicit with all of the human rights abuses perpetrated by the royal family. Without them, the monarchy could be abolished. They are the very source of the problem.

> if you don't like it, you have any day available to protest.

There are people thinking that we should not spend our public money on the monarchy. This viewpoint is absolutely topical on the very day when a large chunk of money is being spent on celebrating something they don't want to celebrate.

If you think that is rude, bad for you. Sometimes people will be rude to you and you have to take it.

> There are people thinking that we should not spend our public money on the monarchy.

They may be right, they may be wrong. They surely have the right to express their opinions. But the fundamental question is: who cares? Or, actually: how many people care?

If enough people cared, that would be on the agenda of a major political party. If it isn't, they have to suck it up.

> But the fundamental question is: who cares? Or, actually: how many people care?

I don't know. But I care about their right to shout their slogans and wave their placards more than I care about the existence or non-existence of the monarchy.

> I care about their right to shout their slogans and wave their placards more than I care about the existence or non-existence of the monarchy.

I do, too. I would have sympathised more with them in any other day, though.

Actually, I personally could not care less about coronation, so every protest going on that day just slipped over me :-)

Yet here you are, discussing it online.

If you didn't care, why would you even be in this thread?

> If enough people cared

Maybe they care but are scared by the nazi squads, ehm the police?

The whole point of any protest is to be seen...

Sure it is, but you cannot pretend it.

Why should your right to be seen be more important than the right of the government to organize a nice party for an event that will be in history books?

You have the right to protest, but the others must retain the right to ignore you. You talking in the centre of the public square, in the middle of the market, is ok; you screaming in my ear is not.

The right to ignore someone else is not the right to have police arrest and remove them without charges because you don't like the opinion they're expressing. That's fascism.

I agree with you, apart from the "fascism".

Unless you want to call right-leaning and left-leaning dictatorships both "fascist".

> No need to pick that particular day when you can be most disruptive.

... Yes pick a day when no one will notice.

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