I’ve been reading about the history of the American civil rights movement lately and my main takeaway has been “hoo boy, we gotta get our shit together on the left because we are embarrassingly sloppy in comparison right now”
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They were serious middle-class people, willing to go to jail, be beaten or worse; today's contrarians are performers, cowards and/or careerists using issues for their own self-promotion.
COINTELPRO destroyed ability of the left to properly organize in the US, and now the system is set up enough that it just smacks down folks as they rise up
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who also knew the value of strategic communications and opsec
A foreign - even alien - concept today where the point of *anything* is for bragging rights and clout on socials
Back then, those folks were hardened after centuries of being abused. They were approaching this from a different place entirely.