@_bydbach_ @ChrisMayLA6
I've been thinking about protest movements like the Suffragettes. They were a radical faction in a much broader movement, much of which advocated non-disruptive, lawful actions. But it is the Suffragettes we remember, and thank for women's votes.
It seems to me this is true more or less wherever you look in history. If you're in the labour movement, you know about the arrested and deported Tolpuddle Martyrs, but have you heard of the early trade union pioneers that were (generally) law-abiding - Joseph Arch, for example?
Recent studies of the abolition of slavery have moved from seeing it as a peaceful parliamentary achievement to the fact that the cost of slave rebellions and other economic pressures had already made it unviable - and we celebrate now the disruptive protests led by more recent black civil rights leaders like Martin Luther King and Nelson Mandela (whose defense of the use of violence was precisely what got him jailed).
Seems to me, the claim that disruptive protest doesn't work is wishful thinking on the part of people comfortable with the status quo - and ignorant of history.