Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social

this is always true. People almost never support protests in their own era. They "support" them in the future when they do not disrupt their current conditions.

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Mark Elliott @thatmarkelliott.bsky.social [ View ] May 14, 2024 at 15:37 UTC

It's particularly interesting to compare attitudes to protests in the past - let's say the civil rights movement (USA) or the Sufragettes (UK) - which folk today almost always support, with protests today. Those past movements were generally much more unpopular at the time than people realise now.

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Alyssa Harad @alyssaharad.bsky.social [ View ] May 14, 2024 at 14:50 UTC

Or, I’d argue, when they feel directly, personally threatened by current circumstances. Which accounts for activism under Trump that vanished the second Biden took office.

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Leigh G @yogaleigh.bsky.social [ View ] May 14, 2024 at 15:52 UTC

Doesn't help that MSM always supports the conservative narrative that the protests are violent when studies have often found the vast majority are not. MSM even supports that narrative when there's evidence any violence there was was committed by outside right-wingers aiming to taint the protests.

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