I don’t think it was coopted so much as the whole thing is the coopting to capture the energy and stop it from feeding the pro-Palestine movement and PSL or other leftist orgs.
I’ve met several of the original organizers here in my city. They’re libs but primed to be radicalized libs. The dems have swooped in. One of the drama items is most people are pro Palestine but several loud (also known feds) people have started arguments over “from the river to the sea” chants. There’s some drama over trademark fuckery as well.
So yeah it was always pretty lib but there seems to be a concerted effort to neuter it as a pipeline and I don’t think it started that way.
I don’t think it was coopted so much as the whole thing is the coopting to capture the energy and stop it from feeding the pro-Palestine movement and PSL or other leftist orgs.
I’ve met several of the original organizers here in my city. They’re libs but primed to be radicalized libs. The dems have swooped in. One of the drama items is most people are pro Palestine but several loud (also known feds) people have started arguments over “from the river to the sea” chants. There’s some drama over trademark fuckery as well.
So yeah it was always pretty lib but there seems to be a concerted effort to neuter it as a pipeline and I don’t think it started that way.