Be careful of following the crowd and believing everything you hear. Just because a person has been given a platform to deliver a message, thought or idea, doesn't warrant any credible evidence that what is being said can be rubber-stamped. How often has the media allowed 'nut-cases' a platform, trying to adhere to a person's 'freedom of speech', to find out later that this person was ranting, racist, hateful or otherwise.
There are those who have agendas for spewing and trying to gather a flock who will endorse their nonesense. Be careful of being a part of a 'senseless' crowd of believers, because, more times than not, we've discovered that, in the end, the damage that was caused by endorsing a foolish agenda, does more harm than good. Learn to think and form your own opinions based on your values and how you would wish to be treated if the shoe were on the other foot of what you might be protesting or endorsing. You do have a brain, whether you're using it for good or not.
[The right to be heard does not automatically include the right to be taken seriously. - Hubert H. Humphrey]
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