As a historian of social movements in the U.S., I am hard pressed to think of any time in the past when we have had two straight weeks of large-scale protests in hundreds of places, from suburbs to big cities. The breadth and scale of #Floyd protests is staggering.https://twitter.com/NBCPhiladelphia/status/1269330816741650433 …
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That was number of protests, not number of ppl participating in them.
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Yeah will if there's possibly ten thousand seperate protests (not an exaggeration) and some of them are quite small it doesn't make the movement any smaller than when there was 4 protests and a third of the country was at them.
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This is why I don't understand how the The President and his inner clique could possibly have thought "dominance" and threat of military force was viable, quite apart from civil rights issues and concerns. There aren't enough police man-hours. There isn't enough teargas.
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It worked for Nixon in the 60s. There were supposed to be frightened white people flocking to Trump for protection, but society has changed a lot since then.
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The chart is from
@Peter_Turchin blog. http://peterturchin.com/cliodynamica/the_2020/ … -
Thanks for posting this. It is a very interesting blog posting
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Sounds exactly right to me.
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Is this in terms of just numbers or is this normalized for increased population size as well? Because that would seem relevant to judging how significant this could be.
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There are some scholarly studies on the percentage of a population needed to maintain mass demonstrations to dislodge a tyrannical leader. My recollection is 10% but I need to dig the studies back up.
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I was wrong! It is only 3.5 % of the population needed. https://rationalinsurgent.com/2013/11/04/my-talk-at-tedxboulder-civil-resistance-and-the-3-5-rule/ …
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