Your comment has shades of "freedom of speech does not mean freedom from consequences," which in my opinion is used to put all the responsibility onto the speak

Your comment has shades of "freedom of speech does not mean freedom from consequences," which in my opinion is used to put all the responsibility onto the speakers and none on the reactions of the recipients of the message. I'm not saying your intent was to communicate that, but I feel like that's often the interpretation. People aren't forgetting that civil disobedience means being uncomfortable, hurt, or jailed. For example, just because a protester reacts with contempt about what the mounted police did to two people doesn't mean that they were naive about the possibilities it might happen. One is a conscious, thinking awareness and the other an emotional reaction. Both can exist at the same time.