The "Unmasking Antifa Act" is very concerning and reflects a willful misunderstanding of what "Antifa" is, but I have also been saying that the risks of fascism are not just in the streets.
I disagree that it's not winnable, but centrist media shouldn't be the primary target. Positive media coverage is attainable, but it requires a staggering amount of work.
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The point at which centrists are praising the left, the message has been diluted/ co-opted (eg abolish ICE). I see the issue as more within the industry (editors aren’t as keen to run posi antifa stories) than a movement one (which is not to say the movement doesn’t have issues!)
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The movement doesn't operate in a vacuum. The problems with media aren't simply sidesteppable. They are part of the system that needs direct action, and the industry has an impact regardless.
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Oh of course. I definitely think activists can do things differently in relationship to the press. However I feel strongly that seeking broad approval from the centrist press isn’t a great/ urgent goal. I could be alone in that tho!
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Oh no. Approval shouldn't be the objective. Movement building should. To use "Abolish ICE" as an example, centrists appropriated it because the messaging sucked and no one had a strategy for what it meant. It was a popular slogan and a blank slate.
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So it was ripe for centrists to inject whatever meaning they wanted into it and there was no framework to prevent or correct that.
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The way I see it: antifascism only exists because there's a community need, so doing anything in the service of antifascism as such, and not centered on community needs, doesn't seem to me like it would build toward the ultimate goal of elimination fascism.
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Like basically I just don't see the centrist press as a super useful organizing tool for the far left. It's not useless, and as you say none of it exists in a vacuum. But yeah that's just my dollar's worth of input haha
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