Israel/Hamas War Superthread

[Dill]

(04-26-2024, 01:21 PM)Sociopathicsteelerfan Wrote: The Right wing of US politics always sought to frame the protests as created by outside agitators,
some as far away as Moscow. 

Hmm, I seem to remember the same arguments being made about the violence at BLM protests.
https://www.congress.gov/116/meeting/house/110775/documents/HHRG-116-JU00-20200610-SD019.pdf

This is a good point to address: not "the same arguments" because--

Your link does NOT argue/show that BLM protests were CREATED by outside agitators.

Rather it considers the POSSIBILITY that right-wing accelerationists may have joined BLM protests
at points to "accelerate" chaos and damage. And it takes care to conclude that the "driving
sentiment" of the protests should not be "minimized or ignored."  I.e., the protests arose from
an actual, verifiable problem, not one invented and steered by people outside BLM.

Such people would also be attracted to current campus protests, and it would serve their purpose
to be carelessly or deliberately taken as representative of the protestors.

The point of MLK's "Letter from Birmingham Jail" (1963) was to address the charge of "outside agitators,"
which was being leveled against the civil rights movement. He was not speaking of a few violent
agitators inciting violence during protests, but to the claim that segregation did not justify the protest he'd just
led in Birmingham, either because the solution was worse than the problem, or because the whole civil rights 
show was being steered by "communists" and/or "Jews" situated outside the South. A fake problem
concocted to make the US look bad.

https://www.csuchico.edu/iege/_assets/documents/susi-letter-from-birmingham-jail.pdf