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Unless you get all your news from cable TV and mainstream newspapers, you’re probably aware of the Occupy Wall Street protests continuing to unfold in NYC, so I won’t recap what it is or what’s happened so far. Instead, I want to talk about a trend in coverage of it, and in the popular perspective on protests and activism in general.

I can sum up the majority of coverage of Occupy Wall Street in three words: Condescending and dismissive. The closing graph from a New York Times piece on the protests could have been any snide, apathetic smarter-than-thou commenting on [...]