Give Them The Old Razzle Dazzle by Foxfier

Give Them The Old Razzle Dazzle by Foxfier

Bright colored, sparkly, and moving fast even if it’s just flailing– all of that says look here. Know that ghost dance that Sarah’s always on about? This is that scene in Chicago where the court room is completely full of sparkle-covered dancers clad mostly with feathers that outweigh them. If you’ve been watching Paliwood for a while, this might seem familiar — all those girls are in red. Like the Mandatory Bright Colored Children’s Toys often are, although blue is a distinct second, with other bright colors in the running. The one guy in the crowd who has a on clean coat or hat, in a bright color, is also popular. If a production has something brightly colored and clearly different, they want you to look there. Guess what, that applies to protests, as well. There’s a very good tweet on the “layers” of a protest, here: https://x.com/LukeTaylorUSA/status/2011147517262774298 We’re looking at Layer 1, from a slightly different angle– these are the folks that they want to have as the face of their movmenent. If you look at old protests, this is where the cute girls or emotionally packed character sketch stood. Think the cute hippy chick putting a flower in the barrel of a gun, or the “I am totally not trying to look like a parody of Jesus” hippy dudes in similar moves. Those photos even help drive it home because the folks behind them are usually out of focus– now, the people behind the “pay attention to these ones” are usually in hoods, masks, or both. Now, if you go to the tweet that Luke was responding to, you’ll find a video that does the unusual thing of not being from the desired perspective. https://x.com/i/status/2011130745125826859 There’s two attention-grabbers there– the chick with the dyed red braids, and the guy in the clean jean jacket and red-brown glasses. Well, and the ‘found out’ who is helpfully literally wearing a day-glo jacket, but we don’t see much of him before he’s finished with the f around portion. For the rest of the group? It’s hard to tell who is law enforcement and who is a protester, and even if it wasn’t winter it’d be hard to tell if some are male or female, which is why they’re not made up to be targets for attention. It’s like all the other camouflaged herds, it’s harder to pick out a target to focus on when they all blend together. You can see a non-evil example of this in that video of the ICE agent that picked up a rose, and handed it to a female colleague, where without him pulling focus on to her it wasn’t obvious there was a woman in the group. Now, with that in mind… why do I see all this talk about how “all the protesters” are white women? People keep sharing photos of protesters where there’s three or four women right up front, yeah, bright colored in both meanings hair and all, but there’s a dozen often-masked mostly guys who outmass even the landwhales right there. Even after we have videos of definitely-males doing things like chucking a frozen water bottle at the cops and trying to outrun them (and failing)? They put the pale, brightly colored examples out front to get your attention. It’s not just visual, either. They put women as spokesmen for exactly the same reason that the military uses a female voice for their cockpit AI– it gets attention. Same way that performative anger or sorrow does. Quit cooperating with the stupid activist games, please!