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‘why don’t you wear a suit?’

Haha, WOW. Okay.

I have to say something about this one.

In light of the anti-ICE protests in Los Angeles and the upcoming “No Kings” events nationwide this Saturday, there’s a lot of talk going on about how one should and shouldn’t protest.

( S i g h s . )

Well,
there’s this thing being shared on social media written by a guy named
*checks notes*
Peter Coyote (🙄) about how to properly protest.

For context, he is 83 years old, he changed his last name to Coyote after taking peyote, he was a member of the San Francisco Haight-Ashbury counterculture community during the Vietnam War, and he is a Zen Priest.

He’s basically the poster child for boomer counterculturalism.

I just learned about the existence of this guy today so whatever, I haven’t done nearly enough research to have an informed opinion of him as a person. I do take extreme umbrage with one of his “how to protest” points:

“Dress like you’re going to church. It’s hard to be painted as a hoodlum when you’re dressed in clean presentable clothes. They don’t have to be fancy they just signal the respect for the occasion that you want to transmit to the audience.”

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Ahhhhhh you mean like these people in the pictures below?

They dressed exactly like they were going to church.

They were still beaten, tear-gassed, and shot at by law enforcement.

A literal minister (who was white!) IN HIS MINISTER GARB (below) was clubbed in the head and died.

This shit is still happening and an entire generation of people who like to pat themselves on the backs for being so revolutionary in their day decided the change was too scary so they intentionally voted in someone to undo all the progress of the past sixty years.

During the George Floyd protests a 75 year old man tried to hand a police officer his helmet that had fallen on the ground.

Dude was literally trying to help the police. He was shoved to the ground – resulting in a brain injury – and two other officers made things worse.

All charges were dropped against them.

We even had a well-dressed Black president who, by every measure, had absolutely impeccable optics. Among countless other things, he wore a tan suit one time and got skewered by both the media and the electorate.

On the other hand, we now have a spray tanned bloated sack of shit as president who wears cheap, ill fitting clothes, sports a combover, and served fast food at the White House and everyone who we are supposed to be appealing to with proper optics in the hopes that it’ll work on them ate that shit up and they continue to eat that shit up.

Yes, I am incredibly cynical about the median voter.

But

I have not heard that tone deaf of an opinion in a long ass time, holy shit.

—emily duchaine

Flommist Emily Duchaine lives in the Pacific Northwest. She likes to drink mead, learn about sharks, and listen to the Talking Heads. She pretends to be a professional businesswoman most days. Copyright © 2025 Emily Duchaine.