Outside agitators

Outside agitator is a term that has been used to discount political unrest as being driven by outsiders, rather than by internal discontent. The term was popularized during the early stages of the Civil Rights Movement in the United States, when Southern authorities discounted African-American protests as being driven by Northern white radicals, rather than being legitimate expressions of grievances.[1][2]

The term gained further prominence during the George Floyd protests, with local officials in Minneapolis claiming that most protesters were not from the city, despite jail records and social media indicating otherwise.[3][4]

See also

References
  1. Cindy Milstein (21 October 2015). Taking Sides: Revolutionary Solidarity and the Poverty of Liberalism. AK Press. pp. 113–. ISBN 978-1-84935-232-1.
  2. Leslie Vincent Tischauser (1998). Black/white Relations in American History: An Annotated Bibliography. Scarecrow Press. pp. 93–. ISBN 978-0-8108-3389-0.
  3. Le, Brett Murphy, Josh Salman and Dak. "Officials blame 'out-of-state' agitators but those at the heart of protests are homegrown". USA TODAY. Retrieved 2020-06-02.
  4. Don’t Fall for the Myth of the “Outside Agitator” in Racial Justice Protests, Glenn Houlihan, The Jacobin, 31 May 2020


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