As the United States protests carry on, there have been several casualty reports of injuries and even deaths. However, these are coming from both sides of the line, from protestors and from the law enforcers. There is a huge spread of misinformation and dirty tactics are being used to malign the Black Lives Matter which ignited after the murder of George Floyd by a white policeman. As police continue to use brutal force, the infamous hacktivist group, Anonymous also resurfaced to threaten the government and side with the protestors. After this, their fan account on Twitter has suddenly become very active. This account is now talking about possible ways how Donald Trump is crushing the protests by using misinformation and media.
‘Anonymous Account’ Tells Donald Trump Is Crushing Protests By Creating Division
The Anonymous fan profile starts by explaining three points that they think is happening:
- With misinformation, claim that there are external forces (Russians or Chinese) are at play here.
- Racial Division, to create an “us vs. them” rhetoric.
- An opportunistic approach towards elections by using the “So vote for X” narrative.
There are several scripts circulating the internet to wane down U.S. public anger and cut support for those in the streets.
1. Claim external forces are responsible.
2. Racial division "I saw white people start it".
3. Pushing the "vote for x instead" campaign.— Anonymous (@YourAnonCentral) May 30, 2020
They think that Donald Trump is using all these to crush protests. According to this theory, the first point “is designed to create a feeling of community exceptionalism by building an endogroup where the narrative is “we are better than this – OUR group wouldn’t act like this”; this is to delegitimize the rebellion against the State.”
The first point "external forces are responsible" is designed to create a feeling of community exceptionalism by building an endogroup where the narrative is "we are better than this – OUR group wouldn't act like this"; this is to delegitimize the rebellion against the State.
— Anonymous (@YourAnonCentral) May 30, 2020
The second point is highlighting how Trump is creating a racial disharmony. The protestors include white and black people and all the races. The same goes for law enforcers who include all sexes and the races. To say that white people are doing this, while black people are looting shops is creating disharmony.
The second point "I saw white people start it" is designed to build a hard racial endogroup; its purpose is to build distrust amongst protestors and coerce black protestors to police property destruction and transfer all guilt to their white counterparts, to destroy solidarity.
— Anonymous (@YourAnonCentral) May 30, 2020
Check out the complete posts by Anonymous account:
The third point "vote for x" is designed to hijack public discontent and turn it into a passive and obedient mass, where protestors are encouraged to stop exerting pressure against the state and instead wait for a magical white man to come to fix all their problems.
— Anonymous (@YourAnonCentral) May 30, 2020
There are many accounts out there, some protest organizers, some twitter micro-celebrities, and others just made recently pushing at least one variation of the above narratives. This is designed to coerce the U.S. public back into obedient reflectors and submission. Shut It Down.
— Anonymous (@YourAnonCentral) May 30, 2020
Seductive And Hard Coercions?
According to the Twitter account, Donald Trump’s forces are using two sorts of coercion to crush the protests: hard and seductive.
There are 2 types of coercion you should be aware of:
-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.
— Anonymous (@YourAnonCentral) May 30, 2020
Hard coercion is when the State (or other) openly installs curfews, threats, and/or forces to intimidate the population to obey an order or modify their behaviour to a state approved passive or obedient one. i.e. when security forces tear gas crowds in order to disperse them.
— Anonymous (@YourAnonCentral) May 30, 2020
Seductive coercion is much more difficult to recognize and it is the most prevalent; It persuades rather than forces but can be much more powerful than force. It employs manipulation and control of information and authoritative endoreality based on shunning and inclusion.
— Anonymous (@YourAnonCentral) May 30, 2020
Would you believe that Donald Trump is using these tactics? Or do you have another theory in mind?
