Category talk:Riots

Proposal to categorize riots under protests

Currently category:riots and category:protests are on the same level, both sharing category:Conflict in society and category:Conflicts by type. However, I think it is clear that all riots are a form of protest against something, whereas not all protests are riots. As such, I would like to remove Category:Riots from both of the categories listed above, and add it to Category:Protests by type, where it would be on a level with specific forms of protests such as boycotts, marches, or strikes. --_{Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here} 08:10, 28 May 2013 (UTC)

Since for two days, despite me announcing this at Talk:Riot and Talk:Protest nobody voiced an objection, per WP:BOLD I am going to change the categories. --_{Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here} 05:32, 30 May 2013 (UTC)

Absolutely NOT. Protests are, by definition, both lawful and peaceful in the United States, the same as for the majority of countries throughout the world. Riots however, are neither lawful nor peaceful, either in the U.S. or elsewhere in the world. Put simply, in set theory: Riots are not protests. They may begin as protests, but by the time they devolve into riots, they're something else, entirely, and entirely unlawful.Clepsydrae (talk) 22:03, 28 July 2020 (UTC)