CMV: BLM blocking freeways when they had majority support from the population and were front-page news was foolish.

Movements do disruptive protest that minorly harms tons of random people when your movement needs attention or for others to take it seriously. They did this with majority support and when BLM was front-page news almost every day. Furthermore they were doing it in liberal cities - given that BLM had like 65% public support they were doing this to populations who were already on-board with them.

What so far I haven’t encountered anyone who can justify this strategy when I bring up the dichotomy between tactics of smaller and weaker movements versus extremely powerful and popular ones. I just get responses that ignore the distinction and start talking about the value of disruptive protest in general.

My theory was that it was motivated by in-group social dynamics of smaller BLM groups unaccountable to a broader national strategy. Then it just became a sign of commitment to endorse the freeway blocking - not doing it being synonymous with not caring enough.