I guess I spoke too soon, and right-wingers provoked the foolish, violent auto-immune response from Berkeley leftists that they wanted
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Any time you get ppl together like this, gonna be some scuffles. Calling it "foolish, violent auto-immune response from Berkeley leftists"
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overstates wildly & enables the rw fascist "violent left" narrative.
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Nothing enables the violent left narrative like purported leftists punching reporters or kicking prone people on the ground.
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Purported leftists never gonna be able to behave so honorably that journalists won't get bad-looking video.
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Take it from me: in an abusive relationship like the one we find ourselves now in with the fascists & the media, in the limit they just lie.
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(cf: Ferguson, et al) And if we don't create counter-narratives we're gonna have a lot harder time of it.
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As long as we agree that it’s not OK to attack reporters or prone people on the ground, I think we’re on same page.
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The problem here is that so many have taken all of four or five altercations and used them to represent 5,000 peaceful protestors.
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we knew that’s what their plan was going in. And yet people decided to provide them with the altercations
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As a journalist I won’t comment on that politicization. I will say that this rally was, by-and-large, remarkably peaceful.
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