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David S. Meyer
I'm a professor of sociology and political science at the University of California, Irvine. I've been thinking, and writing about, protest politics for almost ever. This site offers comments on contemporary events, informed (I hope) by knowing something about history and about the academic study of social movements.
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Tag Archives: Ku Klux Klan
Capitol invasion splits badly for Republicans
The dramatic, destructive, and disturbing attack on the Capitol building, incited by Donald Trump, and resulting (so far) in 5 deaths, doesn’t seem to be working out too well for Trump or his supporters. Protest polarizes. Social movements and their … Continue reading
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Tagged Arizona, Ben Sasse, coalitions, Confederate, Congress, Donald Trump, Edmund Pettus Bridge, elections, John Danforth, Josh Hawley, Ku Klux Klan, Lindsey Graham, Lyndon Johnson, Mike Pence, Mitt Romney, Montgomery, Nazi, Pennsylvania, police, Republican Party, Selma, Ted Cruz, Tom Cotton, violence, Voting Right
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Statuary impacts: complex causality, the limits of social science, and striking Gen. Lee’s statue
In the wake of a dozen days and nights of protest against racialized police violence, Virginia Governor Ralph Northam ordered the removal of a statue of General Robert E. Lee, that has loomed over the state capital’s Monument Park for … Continue reading
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Tagged blackface, Charlottesville, commemoration, George Floyd, Ku Klux Klan, monuments, police, police violence, race, Ralph Northam, Richmond, social science, statues, Virginia
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The mask
Tens of thousands of masked demonstrators turned up in Hong Kong in response to a new ban on wearing a mask in a protest. The show of masked solidarity was completely predictable. Outlawing the mask was all about intimidation, and … Continue reading
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Tagged Anonymous, Boston Tea Party, Guy Fawkes, Hong Kong, Ku Klux Klan, mask, Pussy riot, repression, The Lone Ranger, Unite the Right, Zorro
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And the Confederate monuments?
About those statues? The Nazis and Klansmen and associated white racists said they were marching in Charlottesville to save the statue of General Robert E. Lee on horseback. Last year Charlottesville’s City Council voted to strike the statue and rename … Continue reading
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Tagged Charlottesville, commemoration, Confederacy, Durham, Jason Kessler, Ku Klux Klan, Meet the Press, Nazis, racism, Rich Lowry, Richard Spencer, Robert E. Lee, Southern Poverty Law Center, Stonewall Jackson, Thomas Jefferson, Unite the Right, University of Virginia, Virginia
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Why Charlottesville?
With the help of Donald Trump, a few hundred white nationalists captured national attention this weekend, eclipsing for the moment growing international dangers as well as the much larger sustained mobilization of the anti-Trump Resistance. Weapons, provocative symbols, counterprotest, and … Continue reading
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Tagged Adolf Hitler, antifa, Berkeley, California, Charlottesville, Confederate, countermovements, Donald Trump, guns, Illinois, Ku Klux Klan, Nazi, racism, resistance, Robert E. Lee, Skokie, Terry McAuliffe, Thomas Jefferson, Unite the Right, University of Virginia, Virginia, white nationalism
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Protest in the Trump era, part 2 of …..
Donald Trump has provoked plenty of protest in his day, a period that, alas, will continue for at least a while. I’ve been trying to figure out which causes and constituencies are likely to be able to generate sustained, diversified, … Continue reading
First responders to Trump’s election
I turned down an interview request yesterday on what to say to make the “rioters” stop. I said I had nothing to contribute. Shortly afterward, I wondered if I’d made a mistake. I could have said: It’s understandable that young … Continue reading
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Tagged counterinaugural, Donald Trump, inaugural, Ku Klux Klan, Million Women March, Nazism, Paul Ryan, president, protest, racism
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Tainted allies: The KKK weighs in
The worst thing that’s happened to the avowedly non-racist heritage supporters of the Confederate flag this week is the appearance of unwelcome support: The Ku Klux Klan has been permitted to hold a rally in support of government display of … Continue reading
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Tagged Bree Newsome, Confederate flag, flags, Grand Dragon, James Tyson, Ku Klux Klan, murder, race, Robert Jones, South Carolina, violence
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Start with the flag
The tragic racist killing of nine people at Charleston’s African Methodist Episcopal Church, following a year of activism around #blacklivesmatter, drew unusual attention to a range of issues around political and economic inequality. Striking the battle flag of the Army … Continue reading
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Tagged #blacklivesmatter, African Methodist Episcopal Church, Alabama, American Civil Liberties Union, Charleston, civil liberties, civil rights, Confederacy, Dixiecrats, flag, free speech, Germany, Hogan's Heroes, Holocaust, Ku Klux Klan, Nazis, Nikki Haley, racism, Robert E. Lee, South Carolina, Strom Thurmond, swastika
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