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I think you all with this perspective are forgetting how many of the freedoms we enjoy today were won through violence.
A protest is not a hostage taking situation, and when you treat it as such, don’t be surprised when laws that apply to all of us all the time are sometimes applied to your protest. We’re not talking about quelling speech here. We’re talking about illegally seizing property and buildings and refusing lawful orders to vacate until forceful eviction is the only way out.
This is just basic civic society stuff. You don’t have a right to occupy property and block others from using it without the consent of the property owner any more than any of us have a right to enter your home and kick you out and refuse to leave until our demands for a free Tibet are met.
But the context here is that the explicit reason for student protests (outside of Texas) is context-independent, the reality is that it is highly unlikely that they would have been shut down for the same reason if they were e.g. Pro-Ukrainian, anti-Segregation, etc.
for some reason, the same media, politicians and twitter checkmarks who giddily encouraged those ones are very upset about these ones.
it's a mystery.
Again we did not win our freedoms through polite discourse.
If you find a distaste for whataboutism "partisan" perhaps you're the one who has the problem.
Why can't we discuss both?