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Originally Posted by V
Do you have a link to support that? I'd love to see it, because I hate the fact that this protest has more or less been ridiculed as the movement of self-entitled lazy uninterested hippies. This bothers me, because I am very sympathetic to the movement, but incredibly disappointed with the embarrassing PR losses the movement is taking.
And to Mel, if it was that simple to make it to the 1% it wouldn't be the 1%. I'm so tired of the myth of meritocracy.
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That's where my disappointment lies as well, but I saw it form day one. The whole way this movement was established was ripe for the idiot fringe to become the voice, at least to the general public. There are so many good points, but they're lost due to the unwillingness to establish any sort of leadership based around actual intelligent points. The people and the ideas to do so are there, for some reason rejecting those at the edges isn't seen as an option and because of that the whole thing is undermining those points.
Oddly enough Bloomberg has been one of the view people to actually point this out. He had a statement today about the majority of the OWS protesters not being dirtbags. The OWS movement itself needs to find a way to separate itself from those people.