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Also these protest conspiracy theories always end up boiling down to some really racist, paternalistic ideas about black protesters being of one hivemind and that leaving bricks as bait implies that nobody would wanna throw bricks unless they were manipulated into doing it by leaving bricks as bait, implying that people aren't intelligent enough to make their own conscious decisions to throw or not throw bricks. And that by extension covers the whole outside agitator and provocateurs narrative too (so BIPOC rioters are just being "tricked" into rioting because some white dude tricked them into doing it? Come on) it insults people's intelligence when we spread these rumors and conspiracies and it robs them of their agency, and you start to treat people as being one hivemind. That's not how it is in reality. As someone who has lived through 3 anti police protests/uprisings in my city (Minneapolis) since I moved here years and years ago, this ain't it chief.
The Black Lives Revolution (BLM)
Also these protest conspiracy theories always end up boiling down to some really racist, paternalistic ideas about black protesters being of one hivemind and that leaving bricks as bait implies that nobody would wanna throw bricks unless they were manipulated…
From the @StrikeForce2020 chat
Looks like things are going down, one streamer reporting a cop was hit in the head with a brick
The Black Lives Revolution (BLM)
https://twitter.com/4TheCulture____/status/1297717650282422274?s=20 2 hours ago
Why does this have to keep happening. This video made me sick to watch. These incompetent fucking pigs.