"Respectability" politics not the right phrase. Protests can be "respectable" or not— and be effective for goals. Key is strategic thinking.
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It doesn't take much strategic thinking to realize throwing eggs at random, outnumbered, alone Trump supporter woman won't help stop Trump.
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There have been many "non-respectable" protests that have been quite effective. But all the ones I know required intense self-regulation.
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In fact, non self-regulating, non-strategic thinking protests movements often backfire, even those with the most resonant, legitimate cause.
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If a protest movement does not self-regulate & consciously decide its boundaries, it gets defined by its noisy, flamboyant outliers. Always.
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As a lifelong participant, observer, scholar & often sympathizer of many protest movements: thoughtless protests can, do and will backfire.
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We also know historically agent provocateurs placed to discredit protest movements. Similar to your social media false flag points.
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Yeah. Depends on country. Self-appointed, government-pay sometimes just troubled people. But same result.
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