They people also noticed that protests don’t change policy of governments much.
That doesn't explain the countless other protests which have happened since then - BLM protests, Women's March, March for our Lives, March for Science, etc.
Furthermore was Iraq another kind of precedence. The second time isn’t as the first time.
This is the opposite of how social movements development. The movement against police brutality has learned from previous actions, and continues to develop. There must be a catalyst for changes in trajectory:
The black power movement was disrupted by expansion of police under the war on drugs.
The communist trade union movement was disrupted by the crack-downs on communists.
The anti-war movement has been disrupted by ever-more intelligent propaganda operation that relies on the fact that we don't understand foreign countries perfectly.
Maybe social media played a role, but the circumstances were quite different from the perspective of people in the core.
Social media is why the perspective changed.
The PR for the Iraq War was poor because information was disseminated through a couple of mainstream media outlets. They had to sell war to several political ideologies & spoke in broad terms such as "freedom" and "democracy."
The PR for the Syrian & Libyan Wars was hyper-targeted to various different political ideologies, particularly ones which participated in the . The "Anarchist case for war", "the socialist case for war", "the communist case for war", etc. all had their own operations, using specific social media accounts, people claiming to be Libyans/Syrians with a specific ideology, etc.
That doesn't explain the countless other protests which have happened since then - BLM protests, Women's March, March for our Lives, March for Science, etc.
This is the opposite of how social movements development. The movement against police brutality has learned from previous actions, and continues to develop. There must be a catalyst for changes in trajectory:
Social media is why the perspective changed.
The PR for the Iraq War was poor because information was disseminated through a couple of mainstream media outlets. They had to sell war to several political ideologies & spoke in broad terms such as "freedom" and "democracy."
The PR for the Syrian & Libyan Wars was hyper-targeted to various different political ideologies, particularly ones which participated in the . The "Anarchist case for war", "the socialist case for war", "the communist case for war", etc. all had their own operations, using specific social media accounts, people claiming to be Libyans/Syrians with a specific ideology, etc.