Distant commentators applied wrong foreign frames to Brazil’s protests.

Evidence

And then, as commentators farther and farther away began to weigh in, the picture was painted in broader and broader strokes. That predictable phrase, “Brazilian Spring,” was used by ABC News, even though it didn’t make much sense to compare a set of winter marches in a democracy with a popular progressive president to the uprisings that toppled North African dictators. The profoundly anti-military MPL certainly was not pushing for anything like the Egyptian solution. — Vincent Bevins, If We Burn, 416

Categorization

• XREF: Pays off ch15’s theme that foreign protest frames shaped how Brazilians interpreted their own uprising. — connects to: Foreign protest frames shaped how Brazilians interpreted their own uprising — Vincent Bevins, If We Burn: The Mass Protest Decade and…, 45; Erdoğan and Putin read Brazil’s protests as Western destabilization plots. — Vincent Bevins, If We Burn: The Mass Protest Decade and…, 422; Commentators painted the Brazilian protests with an inaccurate Brazilian Spring frame — Vincent Bevins, If We Burn: The Mass Protest Decade and…, 416

Broader Connections

• Erdoğan and Putin read Brazil’s protests as Western destabilization plots. #exemplifies (0.92) — Vincent Bevins, If We Burn, 422