I think the 50k Centretown residents speak for a lot of Canadians when they say that it sucks to be bullied by right wing fanatics presuming to speak for all Canadians.
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Replying to @beyerstein
I think it's important to understand the diversity of motives that draw people into a mass movement & to distinguish between the far right activists & the broader support. To lump everyone together as "right wing fanatics" in fact serves the interest of the extremist activists.
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Replying to @HeerJeet
You've been following the right wing for long enough to realize that even the most vehement racists can dial it down long enough to fool a sufficiently determined journo on a Dapper Nazi deadline.
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Replying to @beyerstein
It's pretty clear the organizers are trying to hide the vocal & embarrassing extremists (hence attempts to shuffle off Pat King) but that's not the same as the ordinary Canadians (including according to polling many POC) who are sympathetic to what they see as Convoy message.
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Replying to @HeerJeet
You keep framing the extremists as a tiny faction. They are the organizers. They set the agenda. Anyone who participates in their actions is taking radical action whether they think of themselves as radical or not.
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Replying to @beyerstein
I think Michelle's article makes if very clear that the organizers are far-right extremists with seditionists goals. That's not the same as saying everyone who joined the protest is that.
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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.
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Replying to @beyerstein
Having participated in a few protests, I think it's good to talk to people at marches & not assume an identity between leadership and grassroots. To do otherwise is to fall into the madness of Christopher Hitchens in 2003 who thought the whole anti-war movement was Stalinist.
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But you should also take care not to get rolled. Goldberg doesn't seem to have done the work to make these claims responsibly.
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She's not grappling with the evidence of the deeds, she's just going by the possibly self-serving words of protesters who are parroting the official message of the protest, which we all agree is organized by right wing extremists.
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That's just not a fair reading of the article which repeatedly mentions the racism/misogyny/homophobia & bullying of some of the protesters as well as organizerspic.twitter.com/TPyaI862ng
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The ass-covering makes the piece incoherent. She agrees that this is a protest organized by untrustworthy extremists, but she's happy to take seemingly participants at their word when they insist they don't accept the organizing principles of the siege they're participating in.
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I see no evidence that Goldberg asked these ostensibly non-racist occupiers to explain how they can justify taking part in an illegal siege organized by racists.
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