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Originally Posted by SportsJunky
The protestors aren't all terrible people. They have some legitimate gripes in many cases. The problem is that they are falling in line behind documented racists and white nationalists using the mandate protests as cover for their own gross agenda. Their leaders have been shown to be extremists and yet the Karens and Kevins at the protests aren't morally strong enough to walk away from these lunatics.
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The playbook of painting people as racists and white nationalists is dangerous and divisive. It just doesn't work anymore as a cudgel because it's largely easy to tell the normal protestors apart from the crazies. The "broad brush" approach to de-legitimizing large groups is counter-productive.