You know what -you can actually defend others without having to actually become who you are defending.
Likewise you can critisize somthing that you yourself are apart of.
You dont need to be poor to sympathise with poor people,
You can still find faults with capitalism, even if you are a captialist.
The hypocracy lable is cheap and overused.
People who protest are exercising there freedom of speech and right to protest. Some are idiots who do just going long for the ride, but there is no such thing as a MASS protest without a message.
People protest to for a change of policy that is currently not on offer from their government, if enough people are behind it, then any fair democratic society should at the very least take them seriously enough to listen.
Not every protester will be united on opinion, just as every Christian, Liberal, Republican, whatever is not united in theirs.
The way some people seem so desperate to use their own freedom of speech -to discredit and insult and shut up the protesters, makes me wonder why they want to live in America - perhaps they would be much happier in China where those people they despise so much are forced to shut up.
How's that for Hypocracy?
Anyone who is still struggling with what the protest is about, please watch this 4 minute cartoon that explains it in laymens terms.