George Floyd protests
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George Floyd protests is a recurring event in the Astral Codex Ten archive, appearing 4 times across 4 issues between May 10, 2021 and May 01, 2024. The archive places it in contexts such as “until the George Floyd protests of mid-2020, when it came back with a vengeance”; “After the George Floyd protests, all Google Trends about race shot up”; “Although the George Floyd protests in May 2020 were the largest round of Black Lives Matters protests”. It most often appears alongside New York Times, Trump, Black Lives Matter.
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- Category: Events
- Mention count: 4
- Issue count: 4
- First seen: May 10, 2021
- Last seen: May 01, 2024
Appears In
- The Rise And Fall Of Online Culture Wars
- What Caused The 2020 Homicide Spike?
- Highlights From The Comments On My California Ballot
- Book Review: The Origins Of Woke
Related Pages
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- New York Times (3 shared issues)
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- Trump (3 shared issues)
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- Black Lives Matter (2 shared issues)
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- George Floyd (2 shared issues)
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- San Francisco (2 shared issues)
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- SJW (2 shared issues)
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- The New York Times (2 shared issues)
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- Twitter (2 shared issues)
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- Washington Post (2 shared issues)
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- woke (2 shared issues)
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- “How do you do, fellow kids?” (1 shared issues)
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- [[entities/concept/metoo|#MeToo]] (1 shared issues)
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Recovered passages from the original issue text. When the raw archive preserved outbound links inside the source passage, they are listed directly under the quote.
Discussion of feminism plateaued from 2014 - 2016, then declined. Discussion of racism peaked in 2016, then declined - until the George Floyd protests of mid-2020, when it came back with a vengeance. Far from these topics increasingly dominating the discourse, they seem to be in decline - or, in the case of racism, to have been in decline until events intervened. This pattern is surprising enough to deserve further analysis.
Since then it’s become less obvious. After the George Floyd protests, all Google Trends about race shot up, and haven’t fully returned back to their pre-protest trend even now, a year later. The woke stranglehold on corporations, governments, and now the CIA is stronger than ever.
Inline links: the CIA
Although the George Floyd protests in May 2020 were the largest round of Black Lives Matters protests, there had been several previous rounds. Most notable were the shooting of Michael Brown in Ferguson, MO in August 2014, and the death of Freddie Gray in police custody in Baltimore in April 2015. If Black Lives Matters protests can cause homicide spikes, we would expect to see one around this time also.
I think the proposed Ferguson Effect and the proposed George Floyd effect mutually reinforce each other. The people who believed in the Ferguson Effect would have predicted that the 2020 George Floyd protests would have been followed by a homicide spike, and they would have been right. The people who attributed the 2020 homicide spike to the protests, if they hadn’t previously known about the Ferguson Effect, could have predicted that it existed, and they would have been right too. I think this is a point in favor of both theories.
I generally really like our current mayor, Libby Schaaf. She has generally had good ideas, prevented Oakland from becoming quite as bad as San Francisco, and a bunch of BLM protesters were harassing her in really awful ways for not defunding the police during the George Floyd protests but she stood firm and won my respect / good will. I also like SF mayor London Breed for being a YIMBY and being willing to call out some of the problems with her city. Both of them have endorsed Loren Taylor. Taylor is a biomedical engineer and businessman, which makes it seem like he’s smart and has some experience with the real world that will make him less than maximally socialist. The YIMBYS also endorse him. Generally seems like the best we’re going to get.
How did civil rights law cause the Ferguson riots? The George Floyd protests? Joe Biden’s promise to appoint a black female Supreme Court Justice (and his black female vice president)? Drag queen story hours? Gay pride parades? If it doesn’t explain any of those things, what’s left of it explaining “wokeness”?