Protesters or agitators: Who is driving chaos at L.A. immigration protests?
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while supposedly holding up his hands in surrender. The reportedly unjustified nature of the shooting sparks violent riots, stokes the Black Lives Matter movement, and creates a new protest gesture known as “Hands Up, Don’t Shoot.” It’s followed by a rash of black men ambushing and murdering police officers around the nation. But in 2015, the U.S.
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So when their chosen heroes — the freedom fighters in whom they invested so much moral cachet — showed up at a concert and started beheading raver kids and Asian workers and abducting grandmas and God knows what else, what were Western leftists supposed to do? In situations like that there are really only two things you can do, without switching yo... See more
Noah Smith • Western Leftists Have Lost the Plot
Even though the protestors were marching peacefully, riot police set upon them with truncheons and fists, an episode…
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Gardner Bovingdon • The Uyghurs: Strangers in Their Own Land
Actions like the Montgomery Bus Boycott required complex organization and coordination. Protest leaders essentially had to create a parallel public transportation system to ensure that participants in the year-long boycott could get to work and didn’t lose their jobs.