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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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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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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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
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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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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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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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the good news is that even though twitter is a Nazi-filled hellspace that
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the whole society-wide gaslighting that comes with fascism and the liberal defense of it is just hard. i'm guessing it's probably worse for people who face it more directly than reading bad op-eds as part of their weird robot job
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anyway thanks to everybody who's been out there doing the work on the ground these past few weeks, and who's writing the useful stuff about anti-fascism and telling the real story. it helps all of us keep going.
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if you're like me and this shit has you constantly feeling like you're losing your mind, though: it's not just you, and you're not. this is literally one of the psychological techniques that fascist societies use. it's a natural reaction to propaganda.
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