The Occupy movement was great in some respects, but terrible in others.
At the time, I worried about its slogan, "We are the 99%". In itself, okay, but it was dangerously incomplete. What *exactly* is the distinction between the 99% and the 1%?
Because, if you don't specify, that slogan could fit all too neatly into an antisemitic conspiracy theory.
It was only later that I found out that there were outright Nazis involved in Occupy Wall Street, and leftists who covered for them.
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