🧵 Thread by journalist Magdi Jacobs following the #KamalaHarris shut-down of protesters at her 8/7 rally, via ThreadReaderApp. I suspect a lot of normie Dems are of this mindset. Worth your time for a read.
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Stybba3019
in reply to Pamela Barroway – Biz Editor • • •I have been mulling over a similar argument the last few days.
What the unrelenting hecklers are doing is political extortion: nice little campaign you have here. Would be a shame if we had to cost you the election by peeling off voters in swing states. You need to GIVE ME CENTER STAGE NOW IN YOUR CAMPAIGN SO I CAN PROTEST HOW AWFUL YOU ARE! Or you'll be sorry.
Lather. Rinse. Repeat.
Pamela Barroway – Biz Editor
in reply to Stybba3019 • • •Stybba3019
in reply to Pamela Barroway – Biz Editor • • •This is not a 1A issue. No one is trying to silence them. What they're told is they may not highjack someone else's event & demand that they be treated as the only important constituency in a political party they publicly scorn. They want publicity & national cameras on them. Period.
It's self-aggrandizement & little else.
Bec
in reply to Stybba3019 • • •It IS a 1A issue. Protest is central to 1A. Protest is not supposed to be comfortable for the rest of us.
And, YES, people protest FOR or AGAINST causes to be noticed. One protests to DRAW ATTENTION to an issue.
The genocide of the Palestinian people --w/t help of US tax dollars-- IS an issue that DESERVES attention.
It is one that Harris MUST BE ready to consider in a truly balanced way when we elect her to the WH.
It is not self-aggrandizement.
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Jeff Barbose 🏳️🌈 🇺🇦 ❤️ 🇱🇺
in reply to Bec • • •1A relates specifically -- meaning ONLY -- to the government's role in regulating speech. The GOVERNMENT. That's implemented as public-owned and operated accommodations. The DNC is not one of those. Harris the candidate is not one of those.
So it's not a “1A Issue”. It wasn't protest against the government. It was a spectacle. You want to argue without benefit of 1A, go right ahead.
Bec
in reply to Jeff Barbose 🏳️🌈 🇺🇦 ❤️ 🇱🇺 • • •Of COURSE it's a protest against the USG.
BIDEN, today, gave $3.5B dollars to Netanyahu to continue his genocidal attacks on the Palestinian people.
I remind you that HARRIS is Biden's VICE PRESIDENT. Biden has fully supported Bibi's genocidal attacks on the Palestinian people.
Kamala Harris, as much as she is representing herself as a candidate for POTUS, REMAINS a representative of BIDEN's administration and HIS policies.
Alexander Hamizdat for Harris
in reply to Bec • • •are you really unable to tell the difference between the campaign and the government? Are you also unable to tell the difference between the office holder and the government?
No wonder you have such a naive view of this.
Bec
in reply to Alexander Hamizdat for Harris • • •Oh, I can.
But, are you able to think broadly enough and understand the nuance enough to acknowledge that a Vice President -- even on a campaign stop -- STILL represents the administration by which she is employed?
If not, there might be the source of your rejection of my argument.
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Alexander Hamizdat for Harris
in reply to Bec • • •she does not.
Just like the protestors you're clearly in the bag for Trump.
Bec
in reply to Alexander Hamizdat for Harris • • •The protesters are not Trump-supporters.
They are AntiZionist and ProPalestinian people who are protesting USG funds and munitions being sent to Israel that are being used by BIbi to support his 11-month genocidal attack on Palestinian people.
Now, you may support this genocide of the Palestinian people and if so, I pity you.
I want Harris to win, b/c the US must not fall to fascism. HOWEVER, I do not demand conformity b/c conformity is coercion. Protest is a good thing.
Twitter_expat ✅(Fedi Resident)
in reply to Bec • • •Katrina Katrinka :donor:
Unknown parent • • •@Thumper1964 @tawtovo @Stybba3019
They want it (the genocide in Gaza and the West Bank) to stop.
That's it.
It's not a political position arrived at through distanced reasoning. It's desperation.
It's urgent, immediate.
They're not going to stop because that's not how humans work. It can't be reasoned away by talking about Trump because they're not thinking about campaign strategy. They're thinking about the worst things happening to people they care about, and VP Harris has a position of power in the current administration that is arming Israel.
Harris had a much better response yesterday, telling them she heard them, understood their position, and she and Biden were pushing for a cease fire. Until that cease fire happens, though, these people won't stop.
I mean, think about it. If it was your family and friends, would you stop?