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Thread on the @xychelsea shitstorm. First, read this:https://mic.com/articles/187585/this-is-what-really-happened-when-chelsea-manning-partied-with-the-far-right#.KtrE1fYfi …
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If you're someone who obsesses over the Alt-Right, or whose literal job it is to make sense of contemporary politics, there is an immense epistemological temptation to take these people up on their offers to hang out. Because you want to find out what they're really like.
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But if you're someone people look up to as a leftist commentator, activist, or politician, taking them on that offer carries an immense risk. Because for the most part *we actually do care.* And our followers and colleagues care.
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So we have a lot to lose when the photos surface of us smiling with the enemy. It's pretty much always taken as evidence of betrayal. Yet no right-wing figure ever seems to suffer from being photographed with a leftist.
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It often feels like the only options are to 1 seclude yourself, never mingle with the bad guys (and another problem is the category "bad guys" is sometimes inflated way beyond Alt-Right to include even centrists & liberals), and hence have no knowledge of or influence on them—
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or 2 mingle with the bad people, which is, in the eyes of lefty Twitter anyway, tantamount to becoming one of them.
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I have no idea what to do about this situation. I guess my point is I'm 100% confident
@xychelsea had good intentions going to this event and I really wish Tweeters would be more trusting in someone who has sacrificed more than almost any of us for the cause.Show this thread -
Like this is Chelsea Manning we're talking about here. Chelsea "smash the fash" Manning.
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Is this as maddening/paranoia inducing as it sounds? Cause it sounds like it would make any fan of your videos who has a few right wing beliefs be a potential alt-righter.
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I wish you were a traveling speaker, I would lobby so hard to get you to come speak to our Progressives group here in deep red SW Louisiana.
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what are you talking about?
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