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Complex systems, wicked problems. Society, technology, science and more. @UNC professor. @NYTimes columnist. My newsletter is @insight: http://www.theinsight.org 

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    1. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 3 Jun 2016
      Replying to @zeynep

      There have been many "non-respectable" protests that have been quite effective. But all the ones I know required intense self-regulation.

      1 reply 9 retweets 24 likes
    2. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 3 Jun 2016
      Replying to @zeynep

      In fact, non self-regulating, non-strategic thinking protests movements often backfire, even those with the most resonant, legitimate cause.

      1 reply 10 retweets 29 likes
    3. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 3 Jun 2016
      Replying to @zeynep

      If a protest movement does not self-regulate & consciously decide its boundaries, it gets defined by its noisy, flamboyant outliers. Always.

      3 replies 29 retweets 62 likes
    4. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 3 Jun 2016
      Replying to @zeynep

      As a lifelong participant, observer, scholar & often sympathizer of many protest movements: thoughtless protests can, do and will backfire.

      4 replies 18 retweets 35 likes
    5. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 3 Jun 2016
      Replying to @zeynep

      Trump has many obstacles; he's likely to lose. Except authoritarian demagogues do better when anxiety & sense of uncontrolled chaos goes up.

      2 replies 29 retweets 49 likes
    6. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 3 Jun 2016
      Replying to @zeynep

      This decade's wave of protests had it almost all: resonance, legitimacy, numbers. The one thing they didn't: strategic thinking & control.

      2 replies 17 retweets 26 likes
    7. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 3 Jun 2016
      Replying to @zeynep

      I know younger protesters don't listen to older folks urging strategy. Still, whoever you are, please don't succumb to pressure to affirm.

      2 replies 10 retweets 17 likes
    8. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 3 Jun 2016
      Replying to @zeynep

      Don't confuse "respectability" politics with criticism of self-absorbed acts under guise of protest—this irresponsibility will have victims.

      1 reply 14 retweets 22 likes
    9. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 3 Jun 2016
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      "Respectability" politics deserves criticism when protesters are directed to please those in power. Strategic thinking is something else.

      1 reply 13 retweets 22 likes
    10. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 3 Jun 2016
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      Strategic thinking focuses on the goal—stop Trump—and wonders how different trajectories would play out and then self-regulates accordingly.

      1 reply 15 retweets 20 likes
      zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 3 Jun 2016

      /end another thread nobody will listen to. Sad to say I watched this play out in last decade's protest movements and.. I know how it can go.

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        1. Ed Webb‏ @edwebb 3 Jun 2016
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          those who need to listen, won't - that's true. Nature of the phenomenon precludes it.

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        2. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 3 Jun 2016
          Replying to @zeynep

          Oh, ALSO. Trump is not a "real estate mogul"; he is a "reality TV star". He no longer builds anything; he peddles celebrity & licenses name.

          3 replies 29 retweets 64 likes
        3. PROPHET OF DUNE‏ @sonofbolivar 3 Jun 2016
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          I'm listening, I understand. Militant tactics are not respectable, but whether they're effective or not depends on strategy, right?

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        2. unethical wardrobe stylist‏ @haircut_hippie 3 Jun 2016
          Replying to @zeynep

          tbh, a lot of the problems step from this gen's idealization of "leaderless" protest. Occupy, then BLM, and now Trump.

          1 reply 0 retweets 1 like
        3. unethical wardrobe stylist‏ @haircut_hippie 3 Jun 2016
          Replying to @haircut_hippie @zeynep

          it sounds good in theory--horizontal leaderless protests--but the lack of direction kills any real gains. b/c there are few goals.

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        2. Philip Koop‏ @philkoop 3 Jun 2016
          Replying to @zeynep

          Nobody? Not exactly. Those who listened are in the choir. Those to whom it was directed will never see it.

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        3. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 3 Jun 2016
          Replying to @philkoop

          Something like that. Effective movements regulate their own boundaries though. Great unwillingness to do so in the past decade.

          0 replies 0 retweets 1 like
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        1. Heather Gold‏ @heathr 3 Jun 2016
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          Heather Gold Retweeted zeynep tufekci

          I’m listening and I urge others reading this to read this thread I’ve RTd and more in @zeynep ‘s feed.https://twitter.com/zeynep/status/738744137067958272 …

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          zeynep tufekciVerified account @zeynep
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          /end another thread nobody will listen to. Sad to say I watched this play out in last decade's protest movements and.. I know how it can go.
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        1. Sean Champ‏ @spchamp 3 Jun 2016
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