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Journalists do apply the same mistaken conceptualization to "black bloc" tactics employed by individuals dressing in black and carrying big black umbrellas.

It's not a single homogeneous, coordinated/regimented organization or even an irregular gang affiliation. It's an equipment choice. Yet we have people writing about "the black bloc" doing this or that, as if that were informative.

It's strange how easily corporate media outlets can be short-circuiuted and subverted to produce an almost robotic, knee-jerk reflex, when attempting to cover a story.

It's not even Gell-Mann Amnesia. It's more akin to a kindergartner explaining fidget spinners to grandma.