laundryandtaxes:

laundryandtaxes:

Writing blurbs like this is how you get people turning from mainstream news sources to infowars. Protests are not “organic.” They don’t physically grow out of the ground. “Engineered by a network of conservative activists” translates to “organized by activists,” just like literally any other protest. You don’t have to like the current wave of protest but to write about it this way makes you look painfully out of touch (people are worried that their government now thinks it has a right to tell them to stay in their houses, and also a lot of people still haven’t gotten the message that this is a big deal and are genuinely confused and only know that they have bills to pay and are losing wages because of this) and acting in bad faith at best and at worst like you’re implying that all people there or even most people there are paid actors.

Ah yes, a group of upset and scared people who are correctly positing that this economy doesn’t work without labor is just like the violent and very well-armed mob of white nationalists that beat the shit out of several people and killed at that rally