Let’s talk about tweets, Russia, and that plan….

So this Beau posting is about a Russian plan, through social media, to radicalize Black Americans and make them an internal problem that could split the US. (he compares it to the way the US supported to Kurds, to try to fuck with Iraq and Syria). Using racial tension as a wedge issue to create unrest, make some areas want to break off, etc.

What I found really interesting, maybe he’ll address this in a later video, is the plan seems to have instead accidentally(?) really radicalized white conservatives. Black people didn’t fall for it, but the MAGAs did. Black people’s response to racial issues seems to be peaceful marches, and a lot of scholarship. Books, books and more books, plus documentaries and magazine articles and speeches and voter registration and… lots of non-violent activism. It’s the white supremacists who are getting violent about it.