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'''OutsiderOutside agitatorsagitator''' is a term that has been used to discount political unrest as being driven by outsiders, rather than by internal discontent. The term was popularized during the early stages of the [[Civil Rights Movement]] in the United States, when Southern authorities discounted African-American protests as being driven by Northern white radicals, rather than being legitimate expressions of grievances.<ref name="Milstein2015">{{cite book|author=Cindy Milstein|title=Taking Sides: Revolutionary Solidarity and the Poverty of Liberalism|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=uhbSCgAAQBAJ&pg=PT113|date=21 October 2015|publisher=AK Press|isbn=978-1-84935-232-1|pages=113–}}</ref><ref name="Tischauser1998">{{cite book|author=Leslie Vincent Tischauser|title=Black/white Relations in American History: An Annotated Bibliography|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=7k0cmLCH_mgC&pg=PA93|year=1998|publisher=Scarecrow Press|isbn=978-0-8108-3389-0|pages=93–}}</ref>

The term gained further prominence during the [[George Floyd protests]], with local officials in Minneapolis claiming that most protesters were not from the city, despite jail records and social media indicating otherwise.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Officials blame 'out-of-state' agitators but those at the heart of protests are homegrown|url=https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/investigations/2020/05/31/george-floyd-protest-agitators-mostly-homegrown-not-outsiders/5300362002/|last=Le|first=Brett Murphy, Josh Salman and Dak|website=USA TODAY|language=en-US|access-date=2020-06-02}}</ref><ref>[https://www.jacobinmag.com/2020/05/outside-agitator-racial-justice-protests-minneapolis-george-floyd Don’t Fall for the Myth of the “Outside Agitator” in Racial Justice Protests], Glenn Houlihan, ''The Jacobin'', 31 May 2020</ref>