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You're not ignorant, that would simply mean you lacked the knowledge. The knowledge is presenting itself to you, you just seem determined to not see it due to whatever leanings you have. That's idiocy.

What did I mean by that? I mean that it is plain to see they are protesting because Israel is thrashing Hamas over the events of October 7th and that Hamas refuses to release the hostages (who may or may not still be alive at this point). How can I possibly say such a thing? Because not a single one of them protested the actions of Hamas after October 7th. None.

Their protests are under the generic umbrella of "pro-Palestine" in order to intentionally fool useful idiots who will rally to their banner of faux benign intentions or they themselves are the useful idiots of those organizing (and being paid to show up to lead) their protests. It doesn't matter what they believe they are supporting or protesting, the only thing that matters is the reality of their actions and that immediate reality is to support the killing of Jews for no other reason than being Jewish. The larger reality is that if they ever achieved their goals they would then turn their attentions to killing all Christians, Buddhists, etc, then finally they'll get down to Sunni vs Shi'a.

Why? Because that's what radical religious intolerance does, it seeks out the "different" and tries to stamp it through forcing others to change to their religion or commits violence against them for being non-believers. This is a cycle as old as recorded history.

If you pay enough attention to this topic to think you have an informed opinion and yet you somehow arrive at "they aren't that bad because they told me so" (or somesuch), then you're an idiot.

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Why specifically am I naive? Because I described the public safety risk posed by a wall of tables and tents vs a handful of sporadic tents in a park and gave an example of how the wall of tables and tents actually caused harm and terror vs the tents in JS? Please explain how that makes me naive. Be specific.

I did. I called it a pathetic attempt at moral equivalency. You even quoted it in one of your responses.

You've attempted to equate those setting up tents for the joviality and fun of a parade for all to those setting up tents in order to harass and intimidate others into doing their bidding on the international political stage. The only options are that you are either too naive to comprehend the motivations creating the two scenarios (which I doubt) or you are purposely trying to generalize the two simply to "tents" in order to feel you have made some point without having to actually state you support Hamas (or, at least, the failed two-state solution).

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I don’t believe you.

I don't care. You made the ignorant accusation, I addressed it. I've always rebutted you from a point of honesty and will always continue to do so. Your willingness to delude yourself to the extent where you feel the need to hide behind knee-jerk accusations of lying is a problem for you to deal with.

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what does this have to do with anything, even if true? These people were arrested at like 7:15 pm.

It's an example to show I know whereof I speak. Only people who have stayed on the Square would know about being awakened by the street-washers. Your inability to comprehend such a basic tenet of discourse is sad.

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this is big news in New Orleans. Lots of people who were there are speaking to the media about it. People are talking about this here. I don’t have to rely on the assumptions of an anonymous internet poster who claims to have been to Jackson Square for work before. I can listen to the words of the people who were actually there, including the bystander who has handcuffed then tased while handcuffed.

So when you say "that's not what they said", you're basing your opinion from some practiced soundbites to the media, you're hearing it from someone who heard it from someone or some combination thereof. In other words, you're basing your view that they are less of a danger than Mardi Gras campers based on what they claim to the media or 3rd person accounts rather than why they are there in the first place, and you somehow consider this a rational, informed opinion.

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I live less than 3 miles from Jackson Square.

Didn't ask. Don't care.