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    1. Lindsay Beyerstein‏ @beyerstein Feb 18

      What of the popular discontent of hourly retail workers at the Rideau Mall and surrounding businesses that were forced to close because they couldn't guarantee anyone's safety amidst marauding truckers? Some haven't worked in 3 weeks.

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    2. Lindsay Beyerstein‏ @beyerstein Feb 18

      What of the popular discontent of the residents of Ottawa who organized actually peaceful protests to reclaim their neighborhoods when the Ottawa Police Service refused?

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    3. Lindsay Beyerstein‏ @beyerstein Feb 18

      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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    4. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet Feb 18
      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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    5. Lindsay Beyerstein‏ @beyerstein Feb 18
      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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    6. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet Feb 18
      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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    7. Lindsay Beyerstein‏ @beyerstein Feb 18
      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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    8. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet Feb 18
      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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    9. Adam H. Johnson‏Verified account @adamjohnsonNYC Feb 18
      Replying to @HeerJeet @beyerstein

      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

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    10. Adam H. Johnson‏Verified account @adamjohnsonNYC Feb 18
      Replying to @adamjohnsonNYC @HeerJeet @beyerstein

      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

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      Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet Feb 18
      Replying to @adamjohnsonNYC @beyerstein

      I'd say this is a layered thing: Organizers are fascists or proto-fascists, the people day-in-and-day our are radicalized & being drawn in, there's added layer of locals joining in (mostly to vent) and then 30% of public who say they are sympathetic (economically stressed).

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        2. Lindsay Beyerstein‏ @beyerstein Feb 18
          Replying to @HeerJeet @adamjohnsonNYC

          Saying the rank-and-file are being radicalized by fascists is a much more coherent take than Goldberg's portrayal of these nice normal occupiers who seemingly have nothing to do with the leadership or the aims of the protest.

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        3. Lindsay Beyerstein‏ @beyerstein Feb 18
          Replying to @beyerstein @HeerJeet @adamjohnsonNYC

          "Fascists are trying to radicalize your boomer parents" is a much more relevant and compelling take than "I found a trucker hanger-on who likes BLM, okay?"

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        2. Adam H. Johnson‏Verified account @adamjohnsonNYC Feb 18
          Replying to @HeerJeet @beyerstein

          I think there’s a fundamental epistemological weakness in liberal reportage that seeks psychobabble explanations in lieu of using our brains about funding and context. See: early Tea Party reporting in NYT that ended up being 100% credulous and off the markpic.twitter.com/eVs3ECfVgL

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        1. Dan Milway‏ @thrilway Feb 18
          Replying to @HeerJeet @adamjohnsonNYC @beyerstein

          How much of the facts on the ground do those 30% know, though? I'm not much of a consumer of establishment Cdn news-media, but the reporting I did see from them tended to center the most reasonable or goofy parts of the blockade/occupation.

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