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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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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A fascist led movement that gets a third of the public to express sympathy is a big deal. Kind of important to find out what the attraction is (and ways to disentangle the followers from the leaders).
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Credulously platforming people based purely on their personal insistence that they aren't fascists, despite their enthusiastic participation in a fascist street action, is not a responsible way to go about that.
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Got through interview without dropping racial slur. Check! Gave me a hug: Check! Clearly this person deserves to be the main focus of my report. No credibility issues here.
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I think a lot of people who are attracted to extremist movements are lost souls who have been unmoored by events. Trying to get a sense of that social reality is more useful rather than simply assuming they are just innately bad people doing bad things.
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She does get to the sinister core of the truckers' occupation at the end of the article, but the framing of the thing is problematic since she puts the little people up first.pic.twitter.com/6thih88R4Y
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I don't think it's unreasonable to expect people to read the whole article.
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Nor is it unreasonable read the whole thing and call it out for absolutely perverse framing and whiplash-inducing reversals that render the whole piece incoherent.
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Most Americans will not read many reported pieces on the siege and Goldberg is doing them a grave disservice by leading with the pleasant fascists. They're the least interesting and important part of this crisis.
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