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I. Did. Watch. The. Entire. Video. It’s also really bad. I am so mystified and dismayed by the level of defense here. It was not manipulated; it was shortened. This is NOT project Veritas & critics do a disservice to those harmed & lied about by O’Keefe in making that comparison.
Activists streamed the whole thing: they therefore offered full context AND a short digestible version, standard practice. Long version shows aspects that bothered me most (“I just won a big election;” “actually you didn’t vote for me”) are intact & in context in the edit.
Activists being “rude” to senators is goddamn patriotic, civic responsibility. It’s protest. Also, no one, save Feinstein, was particularly rude! Telling environmentalists she knows better bc she got a million vote plurality is rude (& wrong! Winning doesn’t confer infallibility)
Those talking about “using” children (informed, engaged children) to further a cause—this is also a protest tradition meant to drive home to those in power very real, very serious points about vulnerability and the future (see, for ex, the Children’s March).
AND FINALLY: what is this going to the barricades for Dianne Feinstein? As she’d apparently be happy to tell you, she just won a big election, a new six year term. No one is threatening to impeach her or saying that she’s worse than Trump or Republicans. I’m just criticizing her.
I’m saying she handled this horribly, & if we cannot criticize the handling of (to my eye, righteous & necessary) protest we’re fucked. I want our representatives, incl those in my party, to do better and I applaud those who push them hard & publicly. She didn’t do well here.
