You know what’s almost worse than a bunch of a-holes dressed in black beating up an innocent journalist and putting him in the hospital? A bunch of a-holes online forging headlines that don’t exist in screenshots and spreading rumors to discredit the journalist who was beaten up.
Soulless fascist thugs the lot of them.
Fake news at its fakest. https://t.co/MSFxlbIrzQ
— Brit Hume (@brithume) July 4, 2019
Their desperation to trash Andy Ngo says SO MUCH about them, and ain’t none of it good.
This thread … hoo boy.
Here is the actual headline that was published in @amspectator, written by @jackecraver. 2/ pic.twitter.com/5kjBNZ1Rsa
— Heather E Heying (@HeatherEHeying) July 2, 2019
Told ya’.
It gets worse.
Here’s another one. Not only did this never happen, but neither @robbysoave nor @reason ever wrote that it did. 3/ pic.twitter.com/o9Yz5yAMpB
— Heather E Heying (@HeatherEHeying) July 2, 2019
This is the actual headline from @reason. Once again, the truth and the fiction are polar opposites. 4/ pic.twitter.com/EOFpafUD0m
— Heather E Heying (@HeatherEHeying) July 2, 2019
Because the Left is desperate to pretend they are the heroes, no matter what. And what they’re learning (and what we’ve known for a long, long time) is that they are anything but.
Real stories by real people in real outlets are having their very meanings reversed with simple editing. The results are then screenshotted and slipped into people’s timelines. No wonder people are confused. No wonder people are angry. Who the hell are you supposed to trust? 5/
— Heather E Heying (@HeatherEHeying) July 2, 2019
This. ^
So much this.
It feels so good to be angry. The white hot blazing indignation, the narrowing of your eyes as you prepare your attack, the tightness in your jaw. Few people are as brazen—or as physically criminal—as the people who attacked @MrAndyNgo on the streets of Portland. 6/
— Heather E Heying (@HeatherEHeying) July 2, 2019
But those feelings of anger, they come, too, as you lift your fingers above the keyboard, prepared to pile on, to accuse, to hurl epithets and accusations. It’s a quick fix, though. Soon you’ll be wanting more. Craving more…just a little more. And so you go looking… 7/
— Heather E Heying (@HeatherEHeying) July 2, 2019
She’s onto something here.
And you find places for your anger. Oh yes. There are so many ways & places to be angry now. Our lives are ever more lacking in real connection—with others, with wild nature. We may not recognize passion or creativity when it strikes. Some of us are scared of it when it does. 8/
— Heather E Heying (@HeatherEHeying) July 2, 2019
And so we hide, angry and alone. Hide behind avatars and anonymity online. Behind black bloc in the streets, like the whitesheeted thugs before. Behind slogans and chants and hatred and fear. We hide, because we are scared to reveal uncertainty, fragility, humanity. 9/
— Heather E Heying (@HeatherEHeying) July 2, 2019
Wow, this was way deeper than we expected.
And absolutely brilliant.
Try this. Try not to be triggered by people who want to get under your skin. Definitely do not be triggered by good intentions voiced clumsily. Do point out egregious lies when you see them. But even then, remember that the person behind them may just be broken, flailing. 10/
— Heather E Heying (@HeatherEHeying) July 2, 2019
*sigh*
Ok.
Truly nasty people exist, people with whom we should not try to reason, people who will take advantage of us, over & over & over again if we try to engage. But the vast majority of us are not those people. Most of us are human, interacting, looking for meaning and warmth. /end
— Heather E Heying (@HeatherEHeying) July 2, 2019
Preach.
Unfortunately, not all of them are fake.https://t.co/5p76re2q4P pic.twitter.com/6uURnChQ60
— Miguel de Leon (@xchixm) July 2, 2019
What the Hell is wrong with some people?
You know what, we don’t wanna know.
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