On the other hand, actually having been there, supporting in solidarity, and continuing to criticize those protests as not being class conscious and predicting their failure still got me yelled at. You will find that for these libs, nothing is good enough except for shutting up and letting those that think they are the most affected by these things lead the movement. You never saw libs say the ACLU lawyers shouldn't be speaking or criticizing, and yet they often have less of a connection to the community than the white Bernie people who were there.

Those protests did one good thing, which was continue the tradition of mass movement organization. But until those mass movements are mass organized and class conscious, their real systemic effects will be minor. And we must continue to point that out. The issue is the best time to do so is only when asked.