1mo ago

Were the No Kings protests the largest single-day demonstration in American history?

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I don't know why you are asking me.
- I'm inclined to say no since it wouldn't be a question otherwise, but hopefully the article answers it. I'll update if it does (reading it now).
  Edit: first paragraph says
  with one estimate suggesting that Saturday was among the biggest ever single-day protests in US history.
  So no, I guess.
This is just lazy journalism. Like, yes, it's statistically interesting how many people attended, but not of particular news value. If you're looking at the photos from across the country and thinking, "OK, but what's the precise number," the forest is being missed for the trees.
People seem to have fetishized the posited 3.5% figure where movements gain traction. When millions show up to demonstrate, rounding to the nearest hundred thousand isn't the story.
- This has prompted, inside my mind, a request based on your critical thinking skills. And please take a few days to look over and think about the content.
  I was exposed to the following back in 2008 and have been pondering about it since then. What is your take?
  https://derrickjensen.org/endgame/premises/
IIRC any time an article headline asks a yes/no question, the answer is no.
- The answer in the article was actually "maybe."
  Crowd sizes are hard to estimate and all, but if it's the upper end of the estimates then it was the biggest.

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