The U.S. population is generally illiterate about social movement history and also has absolutely no idea about the purpose of protest. That's what's currently on display.
The cycle of people being intentionally miseducated and then propagating it is insidious. I got lucky with the right exposure early on, so I have no idea how to break it with people who are stuck in that loop.
I am 37. In high school, every decade after WW2 was covered as group project by some of my classmates the last week of class. They didn't teach us anything about the history that shaped the conditions we live in today. I'm still mad about it
They seriously confuse political marketing with protest, and they think protest is an abstract, historical idea since neoliberalism "fixed" politics through the "neutral" mechanism of the market.
"they should protest the right way, like MLK and Gandhi did" Ah yes Of course
I mean just look at what they have done with MLK's name. That should disgust anyone that knows what he stood for
Huh. I wonder why.
The lack of an effect from the Iraq war protests convinced me that protests were useless up until I saw them work for others later on. I was wrong.
Amazing. Yes. For those of us of a certain age this is all so...familiar.