MURDER, POLITICS, AND THE END OF THE JAZZ AGE
by Michael Wolraich
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Morris's first two tweets, and part of discussion that follows all three:
by artappraiser on Tue, 05/25/2021 - 1:01pm
by artappraiser on Tue, 05/25/2021 - 9:29pm
When Murdoch social media stirs the news in the opposite direction:
by PeraclesPlease on Fri, 05/28/2021 - 3:08am
The originating problem is that she used very radical divisive rhetoric, stirring the hate pot, so much so that Russian media saw her as a poster child to do it's trolling thing - example: op-ed in RT, Sept. 1, 2020: The ‘Oxford Black Panther’ behind Britain’s first black-led political party vows to make white men ‘our slaves’. Murdoch media, of course, will pick up on anything inflammatory going on that sells.
I didn't dig into nuance about what she really believed and any mischaracterization of her statements, that may well have been case. But when someone talks using that kind of language, they should expect similar language back in kind. So why even bother figuring out what she really believes, because the language she uses is inflammatory and the reaction to it is not going to be calmed by trying to explain to folks.
Heck, anarchists have long done this on purpose, to get the war on. Like the tweet I posted above 05/25/2021 - 1:01pm says Agent provocateurs know this.
Not of course, to be shot for hate speech. But it seems as if just as many of her ardent followers, especially as prone as they are to mistrust police, believe the shooting was a hate crime and that is being covered up by police. As far as I am concerned, all these people, both sides, are invested in hate, looking to stoke wherever they can find it. It is no coincidence that it is EXACTLY what Russian trolls were preying on with the leadup to the Trump election in the U.S. and thereafter. They actually would set up fake radical black web pages saying the same kind of stuff she did.
by artappraiser on Fri, 05/28/2021 - 12:14pm
right wingers just love the angry radical rhetoric, they promote it on social media whenever they find it, here's an example I just ran across:
Note there's 2,900 retweets on that, which go out to all the followers of the retweeters. Would certainly reach enough people to make thousands of angry comments on a news site...
by artappraiser on Fri, 05/28/2021 - 12:46pm
maybe not fair but always fun to check on the past wisdom of MSM talking heads
by artappraiser on Mon, 05/31/2021 - 2:22pm