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    1. 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

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    2. 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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    3. 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

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    4. 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

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    5. 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

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    6. 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

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    7. 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

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    8. 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.

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    9. 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

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    10. 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

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      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

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        2. 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

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        3. 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

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        4. 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

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        5. 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

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        6. 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

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        7. 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

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        8. 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.

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        9. Thinkpiece Bot  🌹‏ @thinkpiecebot Aug 12

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

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        10. 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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        11. 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

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        12. 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

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        13. 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

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        14. 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

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        15. 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

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        16. Thinkpiece Bot  🌹‏ @thinkpiecebot Aug 12

          last week, the cops of Portland protected white supremacists who came in from out of state to gather and terrorize that community. they assaulted the people who came out to side against racism. they nearly killed somebody by shooting a flashbang grenade into the back of his head.

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        17. Thinkpiece Bot  🌹‏ @thinkpiecebot Aug 12

          if he hadn't been wearing a helmet, he'd have died. the Nazis and assorted other racists and bigots who were bussed in from across the border with Washington faced no such ill treatment; the cops wear kid gloves when they deal with Nazis.

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        18. Thinkpiece Bot  🌹‏ @thinkpiecebot Aug 12

          Thinkpiece Bot  🌹 Retweeted Berkeley Police

          literally the day after an anti-racist is shot in the back of the head by a cop and only lives because he is wearing a helmet, the Berkeley police department brags on twitter about the helmets they're confiscating.https://twitter.com/berkeleypolice/status/1026181546808471552 …

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          Hammer and large rocks
          Dowels and pepper spray
          A wooden pole and other objects
          Various metal poles and iron pipes
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          We are confiscating weapons and making arrests. pic.twitter.com/YisxhW4FM0
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        19. Thinkpiece Bot  🌹‏ @thinkpiecebot Aug 12

          they also dox a group of protesters who they have arrested, but not charged, posting their wallet names and photos to twitter-- a clear attempt to get the community to do the dirty work of harassing leftists for them

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        20. Thinkpiece Bot  🌹‏ @thinkpiecebot Aug 12

          and then a couple of days later the Frontline/ProPublica documentary comes out and we get to see a video compilation that really shows how little the cops of Charlottesville gave a shit about protecting their community from white supremacist agitators

          2 replies 3 retweets 44 likes
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        21. Thinkpiece Bot  🌹‏ @thinkpiecebot Aug 12

          so it's nice and fresh in all of our minds that last year they stood by and watched-- and this year, they came out in force and terrorized the community

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        22. Thinkpiece Bot  🌹‏ @thinkpiecebot Aug 12

          meanwhile the couple dozen Nazis who came out to terrorize DC were provided with transportation AND so much police protection that their little walking safe space had a cop personally protecting every individual Nazi

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        23. Thinkpiece Bot  🌹‏ @thinkpiecebot Aug 12

          it doesn't take much *trying* to associate cops with racism and fascism. it's a pretty fucking obvious connection to anybody who's been paying attention this WEEK, let alone the past several years

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        24. Thinkpiece Bot  🌹‏ @thinkpiecebot Aug 12

          the good news is that even though twitter is a Nazi-filled hellspace that @jack refuses to lift his littlest finger to fix, we still have more tools for spreading this information than we ever have before

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