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Jul 24 • 12 tweets • 3 min read
still so fucking weird to see #copaganda in scholarly research, as whole-ass books, as entire college courses, as in-depth media studies and as specialties for whole ass experts. man... this world is a trip.
there were like 10 of us talking about this in 2014. lol
our little baby is all grown up now. lol
I heard it from Bilal (a badass comrade, former bpp and houseless advocate in LA [and I think since like 2015, he's been in the bay?]) Then I just kinda ran with it and a whole bunch of people expanded it and I saw the back-and-forths and now it's like its own field of study. lol
But like... we not-very-kindly harassed the shit out of Wesley Lowery into being a reasonable and helpful voice in dispelling copaganda he himself had written during the Ferguson uprising. Fucking amazing shit, y'all... wesley lowery: and i've had the benefit of smart pushback an
Lowery is now doing whole segments on Copaganda. If you had told me he'd be using his voice and stature as a pulitzer price winner to speak against this shit in 2014, I'd tell you that you were nuts.
Respect for the growth, actually.
being old is fucking weird lol
this is cool. i'll put in monday's digest
use of the hashtag back in the day. twitter.com/search?q=(%23C…
this is what cops wanted "copaganda" to mean. lol.

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