You know the saying "When all you have is a hammer, all you see are nails?" All Mensch has is a nail, so she sees hammers everywhere.
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Mensch found her breakout crossover appeal in breaking stories about Russia. So now she's doing her best Jan Brady: "RUSHA, RUSHA, RUSHA!"
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And attaching it to events that are well and truly beyond her ken or even her actual interest, erasing pain, erasing reality on the ground,
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I completely interrupted the thread I was working on when I saw this. I just... this narrative. It's dangerous and damaging.
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The right has been eager to paint Black Lives Matter and similar protests as non-genuine. The left has been all too eager to accept that.
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This narrative damages Black Lives Matter and could be widened to damage other progressive movements and causes.
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And at the same time, for those who push back against it, it's just going to encourage them to be more skeptical of Russian interference.
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You know how anti-drug programs that say "Marijuana is a gateway to cocaine and heroin and smoking once can get you addicted!" backfire?
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Once the youths figure out that adults are lying to them about the dangers of pot, they don't trust adult authority on drugs generally.
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So for everybody out there for whom "Russia did Black Lives Matter!" or "Russia did Ferguson!" is not just wrong but deeply hurtful...
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...some of them now have cause to wonder, what other stories about Russia have been overblown?
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I don't think this is deliberate disinfo on Louise Mensch's part. But it's beyond a bad take, and its impact will be the same as disinfo.
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The waters are muddier, there's now a "both sides" narrative, multiple rightwing/pro-Trump talking points are vindicated by it.
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