15th November 2018, 5:41 PM
While this was not the point of the video, it is worth noting that Stephen Colbert's call for people to not "bother people at restaurants" misses the point of doing that, which is that protesting someone to their face is a lot more effective, and there's not exactly a lot of other places to meet those people "to their face", and further, it's one thing to say you can't harrass people for their beliefs destructive as they may be, and entirely another when those people and their dumb beliefs are directly changing the way the country and it's laws function, because they are in charge of stuff. No, when someone's an appointed or elected official with dangerous policies based on their dangerous ideas, bother then. Yell at them and call them names while they are just trying to live their lives, because guess what? They are passing laws that bother us when we're just trying to live our's.
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)