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the misconception about our movement at the time was that we were actually anti globalization,” Haque told me. “We were not anti globalization. We’re anti corporate globalization. We’re anti rules that always favored corporations over people. The voices of people most affected by the decisions [the WTO] made were never being heard.”

✏️ This feels just like the Luddite thing. People want to paint Luddites as anti tech when they’re really anti corporate use of tech.. Of tech that destroys people and environment. Same thing here. followup 🔗 View Highlight

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Friedman went on to describe the protesters as a coalition of cranks and naïve idealists who were simply incapable of understanding how trade would have to work in an Internet-connected, post–Cold War world.

👓 propaganda 🔗 View Highlight