Ok, so I've been getting public and private criticism on my retweet calling for people labeling themselves as Press not to act as protesters It's absolutely true that the feds need no excuse to brutalize press. And that is a HUGE PR win for ushttps://twitter.com/WasserL/status/1287100497019768832 …
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Rules of warfare dictate that press and legal observers should be left alone. When Trump's little army violates that? It pisses off the people whose job it is to report the news and that is a GIFT from GOD. It's extremely good when your enemy pisses off the press
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So what happens if people start dressing up like press and doing protester shit? Well, the feds will use it to justify the shit they're doing anyway and we'll lose all that good PR Also, it will piss off the press and this will result in worse coverage. It just will
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Some seem to see the protests as a physical battle. Wrong. It's a battle for public opinion. You want abolition? The people have to support abolition. Protests are effective in exact ratio to how much they persuade So don't impersonate press. Fucking do not. Please and thank you
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Why not both? The civil rights movement of the 60s never had majority public opinion, but still made great gains. (Agree w you main point btw. But just not that change comes primarily/only from convincing people it's right.)
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I agree that it doesn't take a majority, and I don't think all protests should be engineered to appeal to majority sensibilities. But I do think some buy-in is required, whether it's "hey they have a point" or government officials saying " fine give them what they want"
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