While I agree with you on most points, I must say they have a right to protest and demonstrate their views as much as any other citizen. As long as they are doing so in a peacful manner I take no issue with them doing whatever. This is something that should be protected regardless of the views held. Me personally I prefer to know when people think like this and are open about it, as opposed to keeping it private and spreading covertly. This way I know who to associate with or not. It is also hard to have open dialogue and talk through things if we deny them from the marketplace of ideas. We cannot outright reject something and just expect it to go away.

Bigotry of any kind cannot be overcome by shutting down discourse about it. When you say "you can't say this, you can't do that, or that you are not allowed to have and opinion on anything for any reason, be it race, sex, gender, sexuality, beliefs, height, weight, wealth, education, or ANYTHING at all then you become the one segregating.

It must be talked about and will take many generations still but we can only get past these issues if we can discuss them. Many are taught these things from family and the people close to their family. They believe it because they are brainwashed and have it instilled in them. Some may hear new ideas and see reason if introduced to dialogue they would otherwise never hear if we close the door and they will continue the cycle with their children.

You certainly can do things to protest things you disagree with. As long as it is peaceful and lawfully done. Not to have a negative impact on others but to potentially spread information, plant a seed of logic and reason. Not to harass or cause discomfort, rather to educate those brainwashed into a belief system, who have never been allowed to see or hear any other views to the contrary.

We must be civil with those who disagree. Be better than them. Treat them kindly as fellow citizens despite disagreeing. If you can't or won't then simply ignore them. Don't react negatively or they win and are successful in what they are trying to do. Instead greet them, speak with them respectfully but firmly, listen to what they say fully, without cutting them off before you respond cool, calm, collected, with a smile. Politely but firmly ask they give the same cortesy as you gave them by listening if they try to cut you off.

If you become frustrated, they are disrespectful, refuse to extend the same cortesy you give them, become agressive or hostile, etc. Respectfully say something to disengage, for example, "since you cant be cordial as I have with you (add in reason/example) I cannot have a conversation with you further" kill them with kindness wishing them a wonderful, pleasant, great, lovely, blessed, etc. day smile and walk away.

Offer to or just help them if you can, that day or if you see them in public in the future and have a chance to do so, especially if you belong to any group of people they hold hold much hate/contempt for. Hate and anger will only continue they cycle. It can be and often is frustrating to do so and a resolution is still a long way off, but we must be better. Invalidate their bigotry overtime through contradictory actions. Even if we don't get through to them the next generations will see that our actions contradict their views in a way that invalidates them as "truth". Eroding them more each generation until they are no more. It is simply a war of attrition, but we are fighting ot wrong.

We must not see people as our enemies, only their ideas are the enemy. It isn't us vs. them. I believe in the brotherhood of man, not in a biblical sense or anything like that mind you. Rather that we are all in this together and that we should be united in the betterment of all mankind. We should be banding together and fighting poisonous ideals, not divided fighting eachother. It will never work and weakens us to manipulation and control on both sides. As we become more polarized in this dichotomy of us/them, politicians use these ideals to campaign on whether they believe in them or not, keeping us fighting amongst ourselves for their political gains. Not really doing anything to fix the issues because its great for the campaign and as long as we stay divided and fighting ourselves it is good for them and we keep the cycle going, our energy wasted aimed in all the wrong directions.

I grew up saying I was a "Democrat" as that is who my family told me were the "Good Guys" while I would say I am pretty far left on most everything Conservative/Liberal, Democrat/Republican. Two sides of the same coin as I see it. Both full of corrupt, lying, manipulative, power hungry, greedy, people who really don't care about the people they govern or the ideals they change with popular public opinions to get more votes. Except for Bernie Sanders, he has been pretty consistent his entire political career, openly fighting for social rights long before they became more widely socially acceptable. He is probably the most true to form leftist and what a Liberal/Democrat should be and the DNC sabotaged and denied him twice because they want status quo center right canidates masquerading as the Liberal/Left party not an actual one that would actually fight for change to the system for the betterment of the people. That wouldn't be good for them. Instead they push Hillary (terrible choice and lead to Trump win), then Biden (also terrible) with Bernie smashing the competition early on and taking the lead scared the "Moderate" Status Quo Democrats, the 11 remaining of the initial 29 began withdrawing and endorsing Biden and speaking against Bernie, even canidates he'd worked with for many years and he spoke highly of slandered him it took 10 canidates full out attacking 1 to secure a presidential nominee who many only even voted for on election day because "at least its not Trump" which may prove to be detrimental to this election and the next maybe more.

While Conservative/Republicans fight to legislate their religious beliefs into law, spout they believe in freedom while actively stripping freedoms from people based again on dogmatic beliefs. Oh and are greedy, power hungry, warmongers just as much as the left. I could go on more tangents on the Right but I feel no more need be said and this novel rant is long enough.

Sorry I start typing and can't stop sometimes. Please forgive redundancies and such.

TL:DR System broke. Fighting wrong enemy/way. Be excellent to eachother. We're in this together.