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In reply to the discussion: The 63-Year-Old Career Activist Among the Protesters at Columbia , cops call her a "professional agitator" [View all]NanaCat
(2,332 posts)16. Occupy was beyond stupid
What did they think they were going to accomplish by hanging out in a park? Did you see the Freedom Riders or lunch counter protesters or Montgomery boycotters or people denied the vote in Selma sitting in a park, rather than facing their opponents directly?
It's bloody f'n stupid, and downright cowardly, to sit in a park and mewl a bunch of empty slogans, rather than taking direct action. They were so silly and feckless that they made everything worse, not better.
A pox on the lot of them.
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The 63-Year-Old Career Activist Among the Protesters at Columbia , cops call her a "professional agitator" [View all]
BlueWaveNeverEnd
May 1
OP
The older woman "professional left wing agitator" is such an Upper West Side character type that
Prairie Gates
May 1
#4
If authorities call you a "professional agitator" then you must be doing something right.
ZonkerHarris
May 2
#37