Pre BLM protests they were demonized or brought up significantly less. Post all that and with the need from the establishment to put a scary label on it and consent manufacture against it and any kind of non peacefull and peacefull mass protest "chaos loving anarchists" became an extremely usefull tag on. Especially also used for "outside white agitators" and with anything burning as an accompanying image. Red scare commie buzzwords and demonization is used extensively for foreign "enemies" ,vuvuzelas, china and weirdly in teh new russophobia wave so it wouldnt make much sense to use it here too.. Gotta take a variety of approaches and create new efficient buzzword designations when need for them arives
Here in Greece the "anarchocommie" buzzword is the most used one. Against fucking KKE or Tsipras or syndicalists or even Varufakis all the time. Anarchism is still largely inconsequencial and irrelevant domesticaly but the existance of 17N and the black bloc terrorism/violent rioting image made the anarchocommies buzzword very usefull to connect everything left wing to something immidiately "scary" and violent for boomers and chuds
As a violent faceless mennace existing in their streets, wanting to burn their buisnesses down and have the purge yeah its much more difficult to use the Bolshevik or COMMIES scare that effectively cause historicaly post ww2 that kind of scare was a narrative about the foreign other that has secret agents everywhere and anyone can be a secret commie, about the reds that make these secretive and villainous grand plans to undermine american values and way of life and take over. Would be innefficient to try and spin those sentiments and buzzwords into THE COMMIES being the "chaotic" face covered antifa blm teens. At most in the narrative "the reds" would be the ones that finance and are responsible behind the scenes for civil rights and anti war movements to spread chaos and instability in america (and at that point you actualy saw the red scare mindset being exploited very much so as "chinese/russians" are behind blm and everything , every chinese in the US being a CPC agent ,covid bioweapon and vuvuzela and cuba being sponsors of terrorism and a threat to murika).
Pre BLM protests they were demonized or brought up significantly less. Post all that and with the need from the establishment to put a scary label on it and consent manufacture against it and any kind of non peacefull and peacefull mass protest "chaos loving anarchists" became an extremely usefull tag on. Especially also used for "outside white agitators" and with anything burning as an accompanying image. Red scare commie buzzwords and demonization is used extensively for foreign "enemies" ,vuvuzelas, china and weirdly in teh new russophobia wave so it wouldnt make much sense to use it here too.. Gotta take a variety of approaches and create new efficient buzzword designations when need for them arives
Here in Greece the "anarchocommie" buzzword is the most used one. Against fucking KKE or Tsipras or syndicalists or even Varufakis all the time. Anarchism is still largely inconsequencial and irrelevant domesticaly but the existance of 17N and the black bloc terrorism/violent rioting image made the anarchocommies buzzword very usefull to connect everything left wing to something immidiately "scary" and violent for boomers and chuds
oh my god you're right
i was gonna ask why all a sudden anarchists were a boogeyman, but yeah its fuckin BLM backlash
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As a violent faceless mennace existing in their streets, wanting to burn their buisnesses down and have the purge yeah its much more difficult to use the Bolshevik or COMMIES scare that effectively cause historicaly post ww2 that kind of scare was a narrative about the foreign other that has secret agents everywhere and anyone can be a secret commie, about the reds that make these secretive and villainous grand plans to undermine american values and way of life and take over. Would be innefficient to try and spin those sentiments and buzzwords into THE COMMIES being the "chaotic" face covered antifa blm teens. At most in the narrative "the reds" would be the ones that finance and are responsible behind the scenes for civil rights and anti war movements to spread chaos and instability in america (and at that point you actualy saw the red scare mindset being exploited very much so as "chinese/russians" are behind blm and everything , every chinese in the US being a CPC agent ,covid bioweapon and vuvuzela and cuba being sponsors of terrorism and a threat to murika).
Cold war was just a really weird trip I had that lasted 70 years.
I would disagree on that honestly