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"This Movement Started From Nothing, Overnight"

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Crediting a movement's rise to a spontaneous moment ignores Soc 1800: movements draw on infrastructure and trained leadership predating the trigger.

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A protest that draws national attention overnight often comes from someone with prior organizing training, embedded in a network built earlier.

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The misconception treats the visible trigger as the whole cause; trigger and pre-existing organizational capacity both matter to the outcome.

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