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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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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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The alt-right alway take aggressive active action. They need to leach legitimacy from other people. So they either look like they are RedPilling the Lefty Cuck or they are being taken seriously by association. Leftists can't gain these perks from slumming it with the alt-right.
Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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Because these people have nothing to fear. The occasional literal Nazi getting punched aside, the right wingers aren't under coordinated attack like the left is.
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Caveat: I'm sure that public figures get their share of assholes sending them semi-literate death threats. That's universal, and disgusting regardless of who the target is. But in this whole conversation, their largely white, largely male audience's great "fear" is...
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Lowering our standards to theirs is a bad thing. They don’t care if their figures are amoral populist opportunists. We do. That’s a good thing.
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Not to mention this all seems like the activist equivalent of regulatory capture. They want to mingle - that should be a red flag about this tactic right away.
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