The Convoy’s co-optation of racial justice symbols was reflex, not conspiracy

Evidence

Did the truckers intend to upstage, blot out, and co-opt the Indigenous and Black racial justice reckonings that have so deeply challenged our national stories and so many of our self-conceptions during these pandemic years? Surely not in any conscious way. There was no shadowy room where Steve Bannon and the Proud Boys met with my doppelganger and Pat King to cook up that devious scheme. Rather, I think what we are seeing may be more like a reflex, an instinct for what feels, to its participants, like self-preservation. — Naomi Klein, Doppelganger, 869

Categorization

• XREF: Directly tests Klein’s diagonalism thesis — the convergence operates not by conscious strategy but by shared structural conditions.