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    1. 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

      3 replies 7 retweets 95 likes
    2. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet Feb 18
      Replying to @adamjohnsonNYC @beyerstein

      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.

      3 replies 0 retweets 10 likes
    3. Lindsay Beyerstein‏ @beyerstein Feb 18
      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.

      2 replies 1 retweet 21 likes
    4. Lindsay Beyerstein‏ @beyerstein Feb 18
      Replying to @beyerstein @HeerJeet @adamjohnsonNYC

      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?

      3 replies 2 retweets 14 likes
    5. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet Feb 18
      Replying to @beyerstein @adamjohnsonNYC

      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).

      3 replies 0 retweets 6 likes
    6. Lindsay Beyerstein‏ @beyerstein Feb 18
      Replying to @HeerJeet @adamjohnsonNYC

      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.

      2 replies 1 retweet 18 likes
    7. Lindsay Beyerstein‏ @beyerstein Feb 18
      Replying to @beyerstein @HeerJeet @adamjohnsonNYC

      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.

      1 reply 1 retweet 12 likes
    8. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet Feb 18
      Replying to @beyerstein @adamjohnsonNYC

      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.

      13 replies 9 retweets 57 likes
    9. ex3‏ @exactly_3 Feb 18
      Replying to @HeerJeet @beyerstein @adamjohnsonNYC

      Sure, a good origin story is fun, but one doesn't have to portray them as innately bad to make the point that they are currently, in the moment bad people doing bad things.

      1 reply 0 retweets 4 likes
    10. Lindsay Beyerstein‏ @beyerstein Feb 18
      Replying to @exactly_3 @HeerJeet @adamjohnsonNYC

      Who said anything about innate goodness or badness? They're doing bad things.

      2 replies 0 retweets 7 likes
      Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet Feb 18
      Replying to @beyerstein @exactly_3 @adamjohnsonNYC

      "Bad people doing bad things" is not productive of solutions and politics. "Who were they radicalized" is.

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        2. Lindsay Beyerstein‏ @beyerstein Feb 18
          Replying to @HeerJeet @exactly_3 @adamjohnsonNYC

          I don't care if they're "bad people," but their actions speak louder than their self-serving words. Who radicalized these hapless people to fascism is a great frame and totally different from what Goldberg's doing.

          1 reply 1 retweet 5 likes
        3. Lindsay Beyerstein‏ @beyerstein Feb 18
          Replying to @beyerstein @HeerJeet and

          "People who weren't fascists 6 months ago are doing fascism, why?" is a good frame that doesn't valorize this vicious movement.

          1 reply 1 retweet 3 likes
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