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The Celebrity Dumbing Down of Protest Culture

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Two anniversaries this spring show how well-meaning but self-indulgent celebrities helped water down a great American tradition.

This month, two anniversaries seem to harmonize with one another. Fifty years ago, civil-rights protestors marching from Selma to Montgomery were rallying and singing and sometimes bleeding and dying for freedom.

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