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    Thinkpiece Bot  🌹‏ @thinkpiecebot Aug 12

    Thinkpiece Bot  🌹 Retweeted Terrence McCoy

    so... there's a reason for thishttps://twitter.com/terrence_mccoy/status/1028707136405209089 …

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    Terrence McCoyVerified account @terrence_mccoy
    A lot of anti-media sentiment among protesters. Journalists are being cursed at for doing stand ups and asking questions: “Fuck you. Fucking vulture,” one TV journalist was called.
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      2. Thinkpiece Bot  🌹‏ @thinkpiecebot Aug 12

        this isn't specifically thinkpiece related but i think it's something that is worth talking about

        1 reply 7 retweets 101 likes
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      3. Thinkpiece Bot  🌹‏ @thinkpiecebot Aug 12

        a lot of anti-fascists are really distrustful of the media for a variety of reasons

        2 replies 21 retweets 156 likes
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      4. Thinkpiece Bot  🌹‏ @thinkpiecebot Aug 12

        the main one, at least for me, is that white supremacists use photos and video shot by the press to find targets to dox, stalk, threaten, etc

        1 reply 34 retweets 208 likes
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      5. Thinkpiece Bot  🌹‏ @thinkpiecebot Aug 12

        very few news outlets have taken it upon themselves to blur out the faces of protesters who are already risking themselves to protect their community; this is an act of decency that is, for some reason, limited to license plates

        1 reply 52 retweets 257 likes
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      6. Thinkpiece Bot  🌹‏ @thinkpiecebot Aug 12

        the other reason is that the media landscape seems to be dedicated to treating people who volunteer their bodies to create a barrier between their communities and white supremacists who threaten it and those white supremacists as morally equivalent

        1 reply 40 retweets 233 likes
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      7. Thinkpiece Bot  🌹‏ @thinkpiecebot Aug 12

        a year ago yesterday, a group of torch-wielding Nazis terrorized a group of anti-racist protesters. yesterday, cops were the ones that came out to do the terrorizing

        1 reply 12 retweets 151 likes
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      8. Thinkpiece Bot  🌹‏ @thinkpiecebot Aug 12

        i've never been in situations as rough as the protesters in Portland, Charlottesville and DC have been in this week, but i've put effort into spoiling footage by flipping off cameras and yelling swear words before, just as an attempt to keep my unmasked comrades slightly safer

        2 replies 4 retweets 140 likes
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      9. Thinkpiece Bot  🌹‏ @thinkpiecebot Aug 12

        whether they're doing it on purpose or not, the media has acted as allies to fascists, Nazis, the alt-right, etc over and over for the past several years

        1 reply 48 retweets 190 likes
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      10. Thinkpiece Bot  🌹‏ @thinkpiecebot Aug 12

        the media has been letting Kessler air his white supremacist views on NPR unchallenged, doing soft-focus profiles of Nazis, letting the cops' version of the story go unchallenged, or releasing photos and video that make it dead easy for Nazis to harass and threaten activists

        2 replies 39 retweets 176 likes
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      11. Thinkpiece Bot  🌹‏ @thinkpiecebot Aug 12

        i'm drawing broad strokes around the media as a whole here because when you're on the ground trying to deal with a photographer you often don't have any way to know who's paying for them to be there

        1 reply 7 retweets 115 likes
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      12. Thinkpiece Bot  🌹‏ @thinkpiecebot Aug 12

        the other big mistake that the media makes when dealing with protests is assuming that by not wanting to talk to them, anti-fascists are somehow betraying their own cause by not making a case to the public

        1 reply 15 retweets 119 likes
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      13. Thinkpiece Bot  🌹‏ @thinkpiecebot Aug 12

        you don't usually go out in the streets and block traffic and carry signs and do chants to convince the undecided. you do it as a show of force against your opponents (in this case, nazis) and as a show of solidarity with people dealing with the oppression you're fighting against

        1 reply 35 retweets 177 likes
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      14. Thinkpiece Bot  🌹‏ @thinkpiecebot Aug 12

        there are lots of other reasons, too, but a lot of people are just not interested in going on camera and trying to convince the tv news watching audience that being a Nazi is bad and murdering protesters with cars is also bad.

        1 reply 14 retweets 112 likes
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      15. Thinkpiece Bot  🌹‏ @thinkpiecebot Aug 12

        the fact is that the majority of the media coverage of all of these protests is gonna take the "both sides" approach, and it's gonna pretend that the cops are neutral and not there to beat anti-fascists and protect the Nazis

        1 reply 27 retweets 129 likes
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      16. Thinkpiece Bot  🌹‏ @thinkpiecebot Aug 12

        there's no way to pick out which journalists in the crowd are interested in covering it with nuance and decency, and a lot of people aren't interested in being used to support the kind of narrative where "should Nazis be marching in the streets" is something that's worth debating

        1 reply 13 retweets 103 likes
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      17. Thinkpiece Bot  🌹‏ @thinkpiecebot Aug 12

        if you don't want to have protesters telling you to fuck off and obscuring your photos, you have to build some trust with them, and right now there's no guarantee that they'll be treated any better than honest-to-god swastika-tattoo Nazis

        1 reply 12 retweets 111 likes
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      18. Thinkpiece Bot  🌹‏ @thinkpiecebot Aug 12

        i think most people interested in actively opposing fascism have found channels they trust far more than believing any particular platform

        2 replies 3 retweets 69 likes
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      19. Thinkpiece Bot  🌹‏ @thinkpiecebot Aug 12

        the platforms we can trust to not take the cops' side as true by default and deliver coverage are groups like Unicorn Riot and It's Going Down

        2 replies 7 retweets 77 likes
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      20. Thinkpiece Bot  🌹‏ @thinkpiecebot Aug 12

        and though those two are particularly valuable, the people who do the best job of providing news that doesn't put protesters in danger tend to just be anti-fascist activists livetweeting what's happening from the ground

        1 reply 4 retweets 75 likes
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      21. Thinkpiece Bot  🌹‏ @thinkpiecebot Aug 12

        here's the thinkpiece angle: no matter how much a paper claims that reporting is separated from op-ed, years of shitty editorials from people who aren't actually politically involved beyond scolding the people doing the work from on high have eroded trust in *every* paper

        2 replies 19 retweets 127 likes
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      22. Thinkpiece Bot  🌹‏ @thinkpiecebot Aug 12

        chances are a lot of the people in the streets are there because media institutions haven't given them the opportunities that they deserve to be heard. they've no reason to believe that all of a sudden the journos and photogs there are gonna start listening today

        1 reply 10 retweets 87 likes
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      23. Thinkpiece Bot  🌹‏ @thinkpiecebot Aug 12

        they have every reason to believe their image will be used to push a distorted narrative and/or that they'll be senselessly put in further danger than they already are choosing to risk for someone else's profit

        1 reply 6 retweets 80 likes
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      24. Thinkpiece Bot  🌹‏ @thinkpiecebot Aug 12

        to those of you out there putting your bodies on the line to fight white supremacy: thank you for your work and your bravery.

        1 reply 22 retweets 148 likes
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      25. Thinkpiece Bot  🌹‏ @thinkpiecebot Aug 12

        solidarity from the bot family. ✊🤖. stay hydrated, stay brave.

        1 reply 2 retweets 81 likes
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      26. Thinkpiece Bot  🌹‏ @thinkpiecebot Aug 12

        god the piece that guy filed was so exactly the kind of shit that is why protesters distrust reporters and photogs

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      27. Thinkpiece Bot  🌹‏ @thinkpiecebot Aug 12

        acting like associating the cops with nazis is some kind of stretch for the protesters to do, as if the cops didn't stand by and watch while nazis attacked anti-fascist activists for two days last year until they managed to murder somebodypic.twitter.com/p7Fonuu6kV

        1 reply 14 retweets 83 likes
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      28. Thinkpiece Bot  🌹‏ @thinkpiecebot Aug 12

        check out the ProPublica/Frontline documentary for some choice footage of Nazis beating up someone protesting them right next to a police station with 0 police intervention; that's one of a dozen similar events. Charlottesville has good reason to think the cops are fash

        1 reply 15 retweets 80 likes
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      29. Thinkpiece Bot  🌹‏ @thinkpiecebot Aug 12

        McCoy also failed to note that the police literally wouldn't allow access to downtown Charlottesville yesterday unless people consented to having their bags search

        1 reply 2 retweets 42 likes
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      30. Thinkpiece Bot  🌹‏ @thinkpiecebot Aug 12

        he's happy to tweet about how mean the protesters are being to media, but he didn't seem interested in coming to his collegues' defense yesterday when they weren't allowed into a public space with their camera equipment

        1 reply 3 retweets 57 likes
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      31. Thinkpiece Bot  🌹‏ @thinkpiecebot Aug 12

        the entire framing of McCoy's WaPo piece attempts to undermine the fact that anti-fascists & the people of Charlottesville in particular have every reason to identify the police with fascists and white supremacists

        1 reply 4 retweets 52 likes
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