Thread by @MFWitches

There’s a lot we could say about the @AusFedPolice leak about @BrittHiggins_ in #NewsCorpse’s @australian rag out today.

But for now, we’ll limit ourselves to addressing just one issue.

So here’s a 🧵.

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We want to address the implication that Brittany is somehow complicit with Labor or some sections of the media by meeting with prominent Australians during the furore over her alleged rape.

It may surprise people to learn that when a person or group is in the news …

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… they often talk to or take opinions from other people, esp. people who’ve been through similar public issues.

When we were in the middle of the Alan Jones campaign, for eg, we constantly spoke to many people and groups.

Some of them would be very surprising to many.

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Because they included people on what would be considered the “enemy” or the “other side” of media or politics.

We did this because we wanted many different opinions, and because people from all sides asked to talk to us, & we were willing to hear them.

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The people we spoke to (some regularly, some only once) included:
- 3 ex-Prime Ministers
- 4 ex-Premiers
- A dozen other politicians
- Family members of prominent politicians
- 2 media org CEOs
- 3 media “shock jocks”
- Dozens of journalists from all kinds of organisations

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- Alan Jones
- 4 senior lawyers at conservative/prominent law firms
- Dozens of CEOs of smaller companies involved in the boycott
- 1 senior Bank Director
- 5 CEOs of major international companies
- Several people who worked for people Jones attacked

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- and many others we can’t even remember, including dozens of prominent progressive activists & feminists of course but also many conservative activists and (so-called) feminists.

When you’re in the middle of a shitstorm, you need INFORMATION.

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And you may be willing to talk to many different people to get it.

Meeting with or talking with people doesn’t mean you agree with them, are doing what they want, or are being manipulated by them.

It doesn’t make us hateful arseholes, for example, to talk to Alan Jones.

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In fact, it makes us smart.

Smart enough to realise that resolving problems means you’re (sometimes, & always within your own boundaries & ethics) willing to suspend personal dislike or disagreement in order to get the right resolution for the situation.

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This is called “maturity”.

So it’s childish beyond belief for the Murdoch press to imply (as they are today reporting on the @AusFedPolice) that Brittany was colluding with certain people in order to achieve certain outcomes.

There’s no evidence at all that was the case.

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God, Murdoch’s attack dogs are fucking pigs.

We have to stop them.

With the help of this community, we will.

Get on board or get out of the fucking way.

Ends.