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A @nytimes editorial board member, @fstockman, ran opinion piece promoting de-bunked protest conspiracies + racist "outside agitator" tropes, who's main source is a conspiracy theorist + YouTube comedian that defends Kyle Rittenhouse + follows leader of the Proud Boys. A thread.pic.twitter.com/BYO73B3rQp
According to study covered in the NYT, the Black + youth led rebellion following the murder of George Floyd by July 2020, had involved between 15-26 million people. The uprising, marked by the burning of a police precinct, sparked a mass movement.https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/07/03/us/george-floyd-protests-crowd-size.html …
Since that time, tens of millions more have taken to the streets in cities + small towns across the US, from Kenosha to Portland. The mass unrest demanding grassroots change is an unparalleled explosion on this scale in American history.pic.twitter.com/t9ztiPaQ8f
Despite attempts by Trump and the political Center to attack the movement, and the mass violence of the police, DHS, and far-Right vigilantes = these demonstrations have continued to grow and take place across the country.https://blackagendareport.com/index.php/fourteen-martyrs-struggle-against-racist-terror-and-trumpism-fascism …
Centrists, including @fstockman, have cited a recent study that states support for BLM has dropped from 54% to 40%. The report doesn't explain that this drop comes from Republicans, while support from non-Republicans remains at a steady 70%.https://apnorc.org/projects/compared-to-june-fewer-americans-think-that-deadly-force-is-more-commonly-used-against-a-black-person-than-a-white-person-or-that-police-who-cause-harm-need-greater-consequences/ …
A recent August study also shows that support for the recent protest remains around 75%-70% across all racial groups of Zoomers and younger millennials, while 20% of African-American youth and 10% of white, Asian + Latinx support "revolution" in the US. https://genforwardsurvey.com/download/?did=332 …pic.twitter.com/g7AFqUQsn7
People like @fstockman + Biden campaign seem to be more afraid of the protests alienating Trump supporters, than connecting to the vast majority of non-Republican voters, young people + wider working-class who continue to support the movement, despite continuing media attacks.pic.twitter.com/ErzY4QVTfn
In the US, there is a long history of the far-Right and the State utilizing racist and anti-Semitic conspiracy theories against movements for liberation - in the US, specially the Black liberation struggle.https://itsgoingdown.org/the-anti-black-and-anti-semitic-history-of-outside-agitators-an-interview-with-spencer-sunshine/ …
These conspiracy theories argued that Black people were too inferior or "too stupid" to fight back or organize their own movements + thus had to be controlled by "the Jews" or "Communists." Today, these tropes have been replaced by "Soros" + "anarchists."https://itsgoingdown.org/george-soros-globalism-far-right-explains-revolt/ …
When the rebellion kicked off in Minneapolis, so did the conspiracy theories. These came from the State, from the far-Right, and from the Center: all hinged around the rebellion being the work of "outsiders' - never an organic revolt from the people.https://www.forbes.com/sites/sergeiklebnikov/2020/05/30/mayor-says-he-was-incorrect-in-saying-every-person-arrested-in-minneapolis-protests-was-from-out-of-state/#d6f39cd233c7 …
Such racist tropes not only attacked people's very political agency, but also attempted to explain away the very real mass violence of the police, which treated an entire cities as enemy combatants to be crushed under the boot of repression.pic.twitter.com/O6GA0xOaqP
In an effort to advance this project, the @nytimes has published an opinion piece whose main source is the ramblings of an out of work photographer, conspiracy theorist + Youtube comedian, Jeremy Lee Quinn. https://www.youtube.com/user/kenjiamerica/videos …pic.twitter.com/hokw5zDRw6
Jeremy self-identifies as a "Centrist," follows multiple far-Right accounts on social media, shares content from people like Alt-Lite propagandist Tim Pool, defends Kenosha shooter Kyle Rittenhouse + called Proud Boys founder Gavin McIness a "standard comedian" on his podcast.pic.twitter.com/iwJcGTjrt5
In the week before this report was published in the Times, Jeremy also reached out to connect with current Proud Boys leader, Enrique Tarrio, who marched in Charlottesville + currently directs the Latinos for Trump campaign in Florida. Jeremy also follows Enrique on Twitter.pic.twitter.com/EBMJttdjMS
Jeremy, who states they are a resident of Santa Monica, claims to have embarked on a cross country trip of over 7 cities spanning 112 days, in order to expose "insurrectionary anarchists" across the US. Much of this 'reporting' is contradictory and all appears to be conjecture.
For instance, Jeremy claims he was on the ground in Minneapolis when the 3rd precinct was burned in late May, yet states his project began following riots in Santa Monica, which happened after. Both statements can't be true.pic.twitter.com/zriHgO9bKG
The reports that Jeremy wrote over his supposed 112 day trip across the US are horrifically incoherent - to the point that we doubt even the Post-Millennial would cough up $5 to publish such garbage.pic.twitter.com/ZUpvvHDPpz
Jeremy's reports are filled with randomly sourced imagery and videos found online + the central conspiratorial assertion that because people wore masks or engaged in things like looting - this was somehow magically evidence of someone being an anarchist by default.pic.twitter.com/zeucXHmc2v
The reports are so bad, we wonder if the @nytimes even read these documents - as we here at IGD went through the painstaking and painful process of reading all of them and find it hard to believe people would take them seriously. Here's a roundup of what we found.
Jeremy beings by claiming that rioters are using things like "decoy protests" and "looter teams" in order to "disrupt peaceful protests." He offers no evidence or explanation but includes a photo of "these guys" in a crowd to make it look official. This is InfoWars level cringe.pic.twitter.com/4ej0NMs82H
His "evidence" of a looter team is two random photos that he claims contains people with a "crowbar" which isn't seen and a "lookout" which is a random person standing by a car.pic.twitter.com/Wm9AhfIEXK
Much of Jeremy's poorly written and horrifically organized report is simply questions to the reader: "We only have to slow down the publicly available video + look for similarly coordinated Riot Instigators to find them. ...Allies to BLM? Or are they celebrating something else?"pic.twitter.com/JwFvGxFpju
Jeremy writes: "We can trace the techniques of these Instigators at work back to where it all began, The Minneapolis Police 3rd Precinct Fire..." which is followed with a random photo from a protest as "evidence" or...something.pic.twitter.com/7N5dGqfEpE
Again and again without evidence, Jeremy, using random photos from protests, simply prescribes active roles, ideologies, and functions to individuals.pic.twitter.com/e5PFlGccN0
Jeremy also re-uses photos in his report to which he ascribes new meaning to. In a re-using of a photo of what was before called a "looter team," he now writes: "A duo executes what Anarchists call a “Direct Action,” their collaboration crossing racial lines."pic.twitter.com/1Gztk8iKjE
Here Jeremy writes, his evidence being a news report livestream video, that because things were thrown at a demonstration, the people that threw them were "tactical anarchists." Brilliant journalism.pic.twitter.com/44A7l91Bp2
Moving into Jeremy's second PDF report of his adrenaline pumping 112 days of hardcore reporting, he shows us a random picture that he claims, without any shred of evidence, is a photo of a "riot leader." Looks like random person standing on the street.pic.twitter.com/v0OaYvr514
Page after page, Jeremy makes baseless claim after baseless claim with no-evidence. This report that @fstockman is celebrating reads like a drunken rant on a Breitbart comment thread.pic.twitter.com/B96ESq0QkE
By Jeremy's third PDF report, he's basically having an internal conspiratorial conversation with himself, contradicting even his own baseless accusations while going back and forth between making a straight point and pondering randomly. Why did the @nytimes run this?pic.twitter.com/HIGQM7mlmo
Here, Jeremy ponders the meaning of a "raised fist." LOL.pic.twitter.com/5tsgQ77ll3
Here, Jeremy discovers a person's anarchist-ness because they are observing things around them at a protest. A HA. A Copwatcher. Bingo, anarcho DNA.pic.twitter.com/YIS9CncCiv
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