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I’m talking about how people feel where people protest outside their homes. When it’s at work they feel like they’re in some context where it’s appropriate and is related to their work, and they enjoy a certain amount of anonymity.

When people show at their homes and are protesting, it becomes deeply personal, and exposes their family who is not involved as targets.

Listen, I feel like you don’t get how people can feel intimidated by strangers protesting in front of their personal and individual home, their site of their sanctum and a private place of safety for them and their family. How in that context what would otherwise be protestors now feels like an angry mob. That’s ok you don’t, I guess, but I would suggest sitting back and thinking empathetically about the difference between our work milieu and our home milieu, and how you cross a line that divides these worlds when you protest their work at their home.

To your continued edits:

Please do conflate those. I am not in favor of the laptops or how they’re requisitioned. I’m saying don’t show up at peoples private homes to make your political points. It’s scary stuff that crosses a line. You might not see that, but I hope you can see how others might.



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