On "Politically Approved Protests" (as We Now Have In the U.S. with Black Lives Matter Protests Being Deemed as Good and Protests Against These Buffoonish Lockdowns Being Deemed as Bad)

Kinda' defeats the purpose, doesn't it (the fact that many protests over the decades have been directed AT the state and so waiting for this very entity to sanction and legitimize you seems a wee-bit retarded, no?)? Sure seems that way to me.