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Are they well-educated and affluent? Then their critique is dismissed as "the populism of the privileged."
Maybe, rather, they're less affluent and not terribly educated? Oh -- those people are the ones who are "largely poor, uneducated and easy to command."
In other words, the only protests that are worth honoring are those that come from the left. Anything else, as Time's Joe Klein will have us know, is just plain seditious.
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