"Hey Hippie! Shut up"

Quint Stevenson, RISD grad student who's taken a couple of my classes "went down the
demonstration," but instead of getting his "fair share of abuse" he got himself in the news:

"Across the street, 26-year-old Milton Stevenson waged a one-man counterprotest. His handmade sign read “Hey Hippie! Shut up — nobody likes the war.” He said he was protesting the protesters for being cliché and ineffective."

I don't know how to read Quint's performance: as a critique of the protesters' old-school tactics, or as a critique of inaction (including, perhaps, his own generally apolitical work)?

-From the Providence Journal