The concern from organizers is that opponents will tag the students as puppets of liberal organizations in an effort to diminish their message. “One of the ways to discredit a movement — any movement — is to say they’re naive or corrupt or in league with someone else,” said UC Irvine sociology Professor David Meyer, author of “The Politics of Protest: Social Movements in America.”

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