1. Claim external forces are responsible.
2. Racial division "I saw white people start it".
3. Pushing the "vote for x instead" campaign.
-seductive coercion.
-hard coercion.
Both are being used to dissuade the population from continuing to protest, riot, or revolt. We've fought multiple States and regimes for the last decade so we know how to ID it.
1. Building authoritative endoreality by telling comrades that they should "take a seat" based on the color of their skin or gender despite being at the same barricade fighting the same State, System, and breathing in the same tear gas.
2. Establishing that "peaceful protest" overrides all other expressions of anger and resistance that may endanger or discomfort the State or its laws. This leads to State propaganda that encourages people to do "mass sit-ins" and facilitate their own arrest. (1/2)
2. (continued) Peaceful protest is a reflection of State authority. The State is very invested in establishing the idea that you can passively resist it and that obedience is resistance. (2/2)
3. Having endo-ideals (i.e. community leaders and celebrities) put out calls for peace, calm, restraint, or condemn the actions of the rebellion and the people risking their lives at the barricades. This returns legitimacy back to the State.
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