I’ve now notified @LMPD that both @shelbytalcott and @VenturaReport were reporting for an accredited media outlet and were operating in the capacity of press. My expectation is that they will be swiftly released.
Update: The Louisville doc tells me @ShelbyTalcott and @VenturaReport will be processed and charged like everyone else, despite my best efforts to alert official channels that they were operating in the capacity of press at a live news event. @LMPD
Another update: @LMPD tells me @ShelbyTalcott and @JorgeVentura05 will be charged with two misdemeanors related to breaking curfew & unlawful assembly for their alleged failure to comply with police orders to disperse and for press to relegate themselves to an “observation area”
There is so much euphemism, coded language and obfuscation in these two @AP paragraphs that a casual reader would have no idea what’s at stake is chemical castration of and grown men exposing themselves to children.
That’s literally what this is about
They want YOU to be SUPPORTIVE of these things. They want to HIDE the reality of these things from YOU, and make YOU feel BAD for opposing them. Don’t let dishonest media outlets mislead you.
Do you want to “restrict the rights of transgender people” = Do you oppose mutilating and chemically castrating children? Do you oppose exposing children to public acts of indecency and sexual deviancy? If you oppose these things, AP wants you to think it’s “restricting rights”
The censorship machine is gearing up hard to come at @libsoftiktok. The simple fact is when prominent disseminators of info cover the weird shit you are doing with kids, it’s the weird shit that’s earning you the attention, NOT the people covering it!
It only took three tweets. People calling for ruthless censorship of the opposition also calling other people nazis, who’d’ve thunk?!
This person works at Harvard’s “Cyber Law” center btw, which is a euphemistic name for a place that specializes in secreting discourse policing.
Wild thought, but: Maybe stop doing weird shit with kids. Maybe that’s the problem. Stop covering your tracks with shitty euphemisms like “gender affirming care.” Stop encouraging them to exclude their parents. Stop giving them body altering hormones. Stop urging surgery.
“This is not about CRT, this is more about equity.” Is perhaps among the more dissonant interpretations of policy.
Big red flag too when media is basically in lockstep telling parents that what they’re seeing — racial affinity groups, racial “equity” initiatives that openly discriminate — and say “actually this is not CRT.”
They’re speaking past parents, deliberately, to obfuscate.
Reporters latch on to this technicality, at best, to summarily dismiss the concerns of parents and, at worst, to cast them as white identitarians.
(Never mind that liberal “equity” policies that openly discriminate based on race are unpopular in general.)
I'm not sure I've ever seen a more shameless treatment. This is basically left wing oppo wholesale. nytimes.com/2021/10/27/us/…
They open the story by basically attacking the mother and her child, who is now an adult and working in politics. It's truly fucking disgusting.
And then there's this recurring gaslight from left wing outlets.
If they're separating kids and teachers into "racial affinity groups" for instruction, if they're doing privilege walks, if they're discussing "whiteness" or "white privilege" as concepts, THEY'RE TEACHING CRT!
This seems super ominous, but all it boils down to is AT&T giving OAN a DirectTV contract not unlike the contracts it gives the “7 or 8” other lefty outlets, among them MSNBC, a network that actively helped whip the public into a frenzy of fire last summer reuters.com/investigates/s…
I know that wider media would never admit it and would find the idea utterly hilarious, but objectively, MSNBC puts out as much misinfo and invective as any other network, OAN included. It’s just that they are part of the media majority, and so they escape similar scrutiny.
You don’t end up with a MAJORITY of self identified democrat Americans believing in mid 2017 that Putin flipped actual vote tallies w/o the likes of MSNBC (and CNN) stoking election conspiracies.