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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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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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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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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I don't think it's downplaying to say this is a fascist led movement that is recruiting & radicalizing people who are starting from a place of real grievances.
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Replying to @HeerJeet @adamjohnsonNYC
Why valorize this as "real grievance"? >90% of Canadians are vaccinated. Canadians reelected a government with a hands-on view of the pandemic.
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There are legitimate things to be aggrieved about in Canadian society, but why not just talk to normal people who want to relax pandemic rules instead of twisting yourself into knots trying to present these extremists as the voice of the people?
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It's such a weird argument: There are people with legitimate grievances in Canada. Some of these grievances overlap with the truckers, nevermind the ones that glaringly contradict trucker views. Therefore the truckers are speaking to legitimate grievances.
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The place the argument starts from is that according to polling of @VoiceOfFranky (who has doing the best research into radicalization of Canadian right) the 30% of Canadians who say they support the truckers are marked by being economically pessimistic
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after the last ~7 years I really don’t think we need yet another sympathetic nyt piece soft-pedaling the “economic anxiety” of an astroturfed far right movement. The first few hundred such articles are surely sufficient for whatever purpose you think they serve.
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