I also suspect there’s 2 different kinds of leaders: those who perform the control/keep-it-peaceful plausible deniability gestures and thise who lead the precipitation of violence and catalyze the unraveling.
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It’s clear what range of motives might drive black protesters, but the white ones are a question mark to me. Some are sincerely trying to be allies I’m sure, but several present in ways that suggest they’re out for excitement/adventure and the cause is just convenient.
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David Garrow describes some of this in his biography of
@BarackObama, Rising Star, which I would highly recommend. I did a review of it for my channel last year.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I590nNG-kmk …
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Graeber's Direct Action an Ethnography is an ethnographic survey of the Global Justice Movememnthttps://www.amazon.com/Direct-Action-Ethnography-David-Graeber/dp/1904859798 …
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Came here to mention this book too
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contemporary leaders of protests is a misnomer since Occupy Wall Street and movements such as BLM are broadly spread through sentiment and collect around those. as well u could research how many leaders have been *ASSASSINATED. it's part of y u don't have the mental model.
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Important point - one of the best books in the past few years dissecting this is
@zeynep's "Twitter and Tear Gas: The Power and Fragility of Networked Protest."
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You need to look outside US. 2019 was a year of protests/direction action in France, Lebanon, Sudan, Chile, Hong Kong etc ... It is global, growing and now accelerating during the pandemic as corrupt rotten systems get exposed.
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From Lebanon to Minneapolis. They see injustice and corruption from far and look at their situation so _https://twitter.com/sa0un/status/1266467025938980875 …
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