The truckers hate the media, but they love me!! Sure.https://twitter.com/davenoon1970/status/1494586703264182273 …
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So, you have to make the very charitable assumption that the people participating in this action are a) telling the truth when they demur from socially unacceptable views, and b) Don't ascribe to the official motives of the protest they're laying their bodies on the line for.
If you want to make that case in a journalistically and and intellectually respectable way, you need muster way more evidence than Goldberg comes up with. It's not good enough to interview some folks and take them at their word.
That you can find “normal people” not committed to explicit fascist ideology in a largely astroturfed rightwing protest movement is true but not very meaningful from a journalistic standpoint. It wasnt when we got 1000 of these pieces during the tea party movement either I think
Funding/leadership/political context are what actually matters and downplaying this serves what purpose exactly? Like, yeah, grandma is nice and didn’t have a swastika tattooed on her forehead. No shit. Okay, but what are the material forces, the primary movers
The comments she relayed reminded me of what tea partiers were saying to themselves on the metro in 2009 as they headed to the rallies on the mall.
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