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RE: Occupy Wall Street had it Right: The Movement That Actually Frightened the Deep State
You're right about that as well; While in the public limelight too many opportunities for greed emerge; I.E. an issue within the 'black lives matter' organization; which isn't all that organized; there are several people who use it as a great way to collect a check for photo opps; while they get absolutely nothing done; and accomplish no progress at all.
A lot of the people who "represent" black lives matter seem like a fringe of the movement who make them look a lot more wacky than they are, it's a pretty common tactic from the media. So this may be why we don't see ows2.0 but I think if you seek it out you find the movement lives on today, however fragmented
Please give me a specific example of a person who represents black lives matter, that makes them look like a Fringe of the Movement; also if you don't mind explain how someone you label as a 'fringe of the movement' - can also make the movement look wacky; when they are clearly not part of the movement (by definition that's what fringe means) ---
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I can't give specific examples. I don't know of anyone who was supposed to represents the movement, from what I know it was a decentralized movement like ows. But the media often doesn't know how to comprehend something that doesn't have a leader so they create leaders or heros to interview. I was not in the US st the time so it's hard for me to figure out exactly what was happening....But the few times I saw it on mainstream news, it seemed to be represented very differently from what I was seeing on Facebook, which isn't surprising. I just remember some white people who are a bit culturally isolated talking how nuts the movement was always referring to really overly dramatic instances, videos of people from the movement making really ridiculous remarks and such to defend or explain the movement...meanwhile the friends who were part of the movement posted stuff that seemed really balance and justified. This seems to happen to every movement. The media and even social media find ways to make it look nuts.
It's kind of like how he media will make you think anarchists are all violent when in fact many of them are community driven peaceful people....represented as being more fringe than it is.