I think in general it helps to be more polite in general, especially in forums or discussion boards. At least the respondant was good enough to quote a source.

I think in general it helps to be more polite in general, especially in forums or discussion boards. At least the respondant was good enough to quote a source. However, in my view as the civil rights protesters were 1 arguing for a greater (or at least closer to home) cause, 2 were set upon by dogs and 3 weren't going around breaking windows, the OP can quite rightly be called stupid for not looking into the facts a bit more rather than just mouthing off.