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Radical flank effect

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radical_flank_effect

The radical flank effect refers to the positive or negative effects that radical activists for a cause have on more moderate activists for the same cause.[1]

According to Riley Dunlap, the idea of a radical flank effect "has a lot of credibility among social-movement scholars".[2]

Photo: https://wagingnonviolence.org/2022/12/radical-tactics-arent-hurting-climate-movement-research/

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Armed radical flanks often protect more moderate nonviolent activists from repression, thereby allowing the nonviolent actions to continue.
Fuck Just Stop Oil.
They're hurting the environmental movement, I wouldn't be surprised if they're paid by oil companies to piss of normal people by pulling stupid stunts
- Please explain how they are hurting the environmental movement
  
  They're environmentalist look like irrational screaming babies.
  They're just pissing people off by throwing paint on famous paintings, by gluing themselves to the road and blocking normal people just wanting to get to work etc. What does this accomplish?
  They should go throw paint on yachts and private jets not block people trying to get to work, or glue themselves to F1 tacks stopping people watching the sport they find enjoyment in.
  Go protest outside oil company headquarters or outside government buildings, don't inconvenience every day people.
- Like with the save the bogs movements, it makes the rest of the environmental movement sound more reasonable mate
- umadbro?

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