Lydia Polgreen @polgreen.bsky.social

Important and careful visual investigation of what happened at UCLA from the New York Times establishes how counter-protestors provoked violence. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

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MikaelKa @mikaelka.bsky.social [ View ] May 03, 2024 at 23:56 UTC

We're like one Kyle Rittenhouse away from protesters being murdered, I fear.

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💀💩L @jweland.bsky.social [ View ] May 04, 2024 at 02:29 UTC

Are they ‘counter protestors’ or are they aggressors who went there to start shit?

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Eike Exner @exner.bsky.social [ View ] May 04, 2024 at 07:32 UTC

"Counter-protesters provoked violence" strongly suggests that the *actual* protesters *enacted* the violence, which is simply false. Of course the violent right-wing thugs also weren't "counter-protesters," they were violent right-wing thugs there to assault the protesters, so the NYT can GFI.

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Tea Berry-Blue @teaberryblue.bsky.social [ View ] May 04, 2024 at 00:18 UTC

But would we say they “provoked” violence? They *enacted* the violence, didn’t they? It’s not like they jeered at the protesters and the protesters cracked. They were violent toward the protesters.

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