sourquincelog [he/him]

This is the shit they told our parents to eat after forcing all our grandparents to give up their traditional recipes from home country

Hard to say but I lean towards no. I think about the civil rights marches of the 50s and 60s, where everyday Americans (who were racist as hell, c’mon) watched police brutalize little Black church ladies crossing a bridge, setting fire hoses and attack dogs loose on Black WW2 veterans. In liberal circles, they say that this “voluntary victimization” of the nonviolent movement kept them sympathetic in the eyes of the population.

Kent State is actually a great counter argument because it has a lot of differences, and how it was viewed by the public reflects how American perception of protest changed from the 50s to the 70s. By the time Kent State occurred, so much had changed (Kennedy, Vietnam, civil rights) and the American public was experiencing what I’ll call “protest fatigue status quoism.” White hippie college students throwing rocks at national guard troops to protest a war was nowhere near as sympathetic as Black church goers getting their skulls split by cops so they could vote.

What also comes to mind is the Tlatelolco Massacre in 1968 in Mexico, though I don’t know much about the public perception of that event.

In conclusion, if it’s “wall of moms” getting blasted by cops, people will care. If it’s antifa, they won’t.

Oh yeah trump loves cities, that tracks, he didn’t denounce them all as anarchist jurisdictions and flood them with feds five years ago