3. Turns out they all haaaaaaate black bloc, for reasons of (i) optics, and (ii) endangering kids and elderly. Unfortunately,
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4. They don't eject black bloc for several reasons. First is philosophical reluctance to tell others how to protest. There was a term . . .
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5. for this, something like "diversity of tactics." Second, these protests are mostly leaderless, and without direction or even cohesion
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6. ejecting a semi-organized, armed, relatively young and male minority is practically infeasible. So you get what you saw today.
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7. Hot take: may be potential for gains from cooperation between well-intentioned police + nonviolent protest coordinators.
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good question. I had in mind a "main body" of protesters, and police, and residents. Violent protesters would be worse-off.
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here police gain assistance managing 'unlawful' acts, whatever those are; residents gain peace; 'moderates' get unlinked...
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I've yet to meet someone who was more effected by a broken Starbucks window than by what Starbucks does to neighborhoods
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I'm not trying to take a normative stance, as far as I can tell moral status of SBUX doesn't affect my description (?)
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