Ordinary Banana

1. Cross-tribal dialogue time! Permit me to serve as your intermediary. Had a chat about violent protest today with Lefties on Facebook.

2. I asked why protesters don't eject black bloc before they fuck things up. Many friends are protest kids, so expected some insight.

3. Turns out they all haaaaaaate black bloc, for reasons of (i) optics, and (ii) endangering kids and elderly. Unfortunately,

4. They don't eject black bloc for several reasons. First is philosophical reluctance to tell others how to protest. There was a term . . .

5. for this, something like "diversity of tactics." Second, these protests are mostly leaderless, and without direction or even cohesion

6. ejecting a semi-organized, armed, relatively young and male minority is practically infeasible. So you get what you saw today.

7. Hot take: may be potential for gains from cooperation between well-intentioned police + nonviolent protest coordinators.