I recently mentioned how the tech-savvy hipster fad of forming flash mobs has been picked up by a less ironic demographic. Richard Spencer dubs the movement Race Riots 2.0:
If you live in one of America’s “vibrant” big cities, you’ve probably become aware of an alarming new trend in violent marauding — flash mobs. If you’re a tech geek, you’ve also probably become aware of this term, though in a far more benign context. More on that below — but first to the kinds of flash mobs that threaten your life.
This is one of those social phenomena, like immigrant crime, that the national media either ignores or else treats with heavy doses of misdirection and euphemism. One must thus turn to the less refined local news for the raw footage — such as these image from last summer captured by a Philadelphia drugstore’s surveillance camera.
The original flash mobs weren’t so mob-like:
Philadelphia: rioting. Antwerp: musical theater.