The lockdown ("lockdown") became a distinguishing tribal value for Blue Egregore, with hick anti-lockdown protesters an object of scorn: ["The whiteness of anti-lockdown protests"](https://www.vox.com/first-person/2020/4/25/21234774/coronavirus-covid-19-protest-anti-lockdown), proclaimed one _Vox_ headline on 25 April, "How ignorance, privilege, and anti-black racism is driving white protesters to risk their lives." The "risking their lives" characterization of that piece's subhead makes an interesting contrast to what similar voices would say about the George Floyd protests little more than a month later: ["Public Health Experts Say the Pandemic Is Exactly Why Protests Must Continue"](https://slate.com/technology/2020/06/protests-coronavirus-pandemic-public-health-racism.html) proclaimed _Slate_ on 2 June.
Is it wrong for me to say "similar voices"? I _know_ that Maia Niguel Hoskin (author of the _Vox_ piece) and Shannon Palus (author of the _Slate_ piece) are different people, and that reporters often have no control over what headline gets pasted on top their work.
The lockdown ("lockdown") became a distinguishing tribal value for Blue Egregore, with hick anti-lockdown protesters an object of scorn: ["The whiteness of anti-lockdown protests"](https://www.vox.com/first-person/2020/4/25/21234774/coronavirus-covid-19-protest-anti-lockdown), proclaimed one _Vox_ headline on 25 April, "How ignorance, privilege, and anti-black racism is driving white protesters to risk their lives." The "risking their lives" characterization of that piece's subhead makes an interesting contrast to what similar voices would say about the George Floyd protests little more than a month later: ["Public Health Experts Say the Pandemic Is Exactly Why Protests Must Continue"](https://slate.com/technology/2020/06/protests-coronavirus-pandemic-public-health-racism.html) proclaimed _Slate_ on 2 June.
Is it wrong for me to say "similar voices"? I _know_ that Maia Niguel Hoskin (author of the _Vox_ piece) and Shannon Palus (author of the _Slate_ piece) are different people, and that reporters often have no control over what headline gets pasted on top their work.