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I've been thinking a lot about these protests, specifically the one in Huntington Beach. As someone who has participated in a number of protests in Southern California over the past few years, I want to draw some comparisons.
The first real protest I participated in was the 2017 Women's March in downtown L.A. It drew upwards of 750 THOUSAND people. You might remember it looked something like this.
Obviously that was planned with plenty of time to build momentum. Other protests were more spontaneous. After Trump enacted his travel ban in 2017, with 24 hours of lead time, about 400 people showed up to protest at LAX on Saturday. On Sunday, there were several thousand.
In 2018, people gathered to protest ICE and the stories coming out at the time of immigrant families being separated and being detained in inhumane conditions. There was an initial, short notice march on Thursday night that drew about 1,000 people. On Saturday there were 70,000.
The "protest" in Huntington beach drew about 200 people. Two hundred. On a Friday afternoon when basically no one is working. No substantial follow-up protests. That's *nothing*. 200 people loitering in front of B.J.'s in Huntington Beach should not make national news.
Also worth noting that it is hard to find pictures showing the full scope of the Huntington Beach protest (unlike other protests in this thread). The framing on most pictures make it look bigger than it was. Sort of a weird version of that classic Nathan Fielder tweet.
https://twitter.com/joshuapotash/status/1252303895591780352?s=21 https://twitter.com/joshuapotash/status/1252303895591780352
If movie theaters were still open, all of these people probably couldn’t sell out a showing TROLLS: WORLD TOUR. *Maybe* in one of the theaters with recliners.
https://twitter.com/joshuapotash/status/1252691526167166980?s=21 https://twitter.com/joshuapotash/status/1252691526167166980
(Just gonna keep adding to this thread whenever these come up).
