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But what you're describing is exactly where "counterculture" flips over to "culture". It may have been counterculture at one point, but once it's grabbed up by

by z3c0 4y ago

But what you're describing is exactly where "counterculture" flips over to "culture". It may have been counterculture at one point, but once it's grabbed up by the mainstream canon, it is no longer counterculture. This is an important element of "cool", which is essentially the ebb-and-flow of ideas between counterculture and mainstream culture.

throwaway894345 4y ago
Pretty sure BLM was a media darling from the moment it was discovered. Maybe I have a weird media bubble, but the content I saw was endlessly pro-BLM (even contortions such as the memorable CNN reporter wearing a gas mask against a burning Kenosha with the caption “fiery but mostly peaceful protests”) for most of the last decade. I can’t think of a way that BLM was ever counter-cultural.
- z3c0 4y ago
  > from the moment it was discovered Counterculture is a like a good stock tip - if you're hearing about it, that ship has already sailed.
- pjc50 4y ago
  > I can’t think of a way that BLM was ever counter-cultural. Fighting the police is about as counter as you can get.
  - Slava_Propanei 4y ago
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- pessimizer 4y ago
  > Pretty sure BLM was a media darling from the moment it was discovered. It was the polished, highly educated, upper-middle class version of the activists that sprang up around the Ferguson protests. BLM was the mainstream corporate replacement of a street level movement, whose leaders acquired a habit of being found executed in the trunks of burned cars. A rehearsal for #TimesUp.
YurgenJurgensen 4y ago
SMBC kind-of predicted this nine years ago: https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/2014-01-23 https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/2014-01-23