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Editor, writer & podcaster at @Quillette. Book author. Substacker. @fairforall_org advisor. ex-lawyer -engineer -coder. Lapsed Jew. Gamer. Problematic Canadian

Jan 31, 2022, 15 tweets

This is fantastic. Protesters on video are mocking media for their lazy smears. This includes a bit (in the video) in which a non-white dude claims he's a white supremacist. People laugh. But a few pearl-clutchers now circulating it as gotcha evidence of...yup...white supremacy!

The people tweeting out the video include the Executive Producer of CBC News in Ottawa

Justin Ling, who self-describes as an investigative journalist

Other people who either didn't watch the video, or didn't understand the sarcasm, include ....

No surprise on this one ...
(LOL ... "A very revealing moment")

Another @TorontoStar writer ...who says this is "proof"

Vancouver correspondent for @SCMPNews

And of course Liberal MP @AHousefather, the guy who was telling everyone that this might be January 6 all over again

Meanwhile, the only one who seemed to understand the sarcasm, was a french radio-canada journalist....
@danlebla

Back to the people who didn't get it
NDP MP Matthew Green, who thinks this is a stunning indictment of the Conservatives

I did a screen grab of the video in case Gunn takes it down after she realizes she didn't understand what she was filming. grainy recording, but better than nothing.

"interalized" !
everyone drink a shot !

Oh no we are "tokenizing"

Returning to the list of people who got duped (or pretended to), another Liberal MP...

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