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The authors of this account think it's important to use our (small) platform to highlight @berkeleyside's greed and hypocrisy today. 1/

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Good morning to everyone but @JesseArreguin, who wants to criminalize self defense, and @berkeleyside, who enables this reactionary politic.

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Um... preeeetty sure that's not praise for you, @berkeleyside.

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@berkeleyside Then @berkeleyside went for the most despicable possible approach, in the name of making money. It was a setup and a sucker punch. 22/22

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@berkeleyside In closing: @berkeleyside surveyed the media landscape yesterday and said, "How can we get a piece of that antifa-demonizing clickbait?" 21/

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@berkeleyside It gets worse, of course. "Klantifa"? But we'll let you do the reading and get angrier if you need to. 20/

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@berkeleyside "members of the press" -- we assume you mean Keith Campbell and Frank Somerville, right? 19/

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@berkeleyside Insinuating that police coordinated efforts with antifa when cops have a history of coordinating with white supremacists at protests. 18/

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@berkeleyside It also sets up a "hey white middle class folks look how antifa ruined your superfun rock concert protest" narrative. 17/

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@berkeleyside Comparing a huge, coalition-led series of actions against a literally deadly threat to a rock concert is hideous.... 16/

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@berkeleyside "an echo of Boston" -- Boston was also about brutal police repression of POC who were protesting, but let's not remember that. 15/

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@berkeleyside Sunday was about direct action to make people safe -- "public relations victory" =
"Sunday was about making liberals comfortable". 14/

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@berkeleyside And then the dogwhistles, false equivalencies, and white supremacist rhetoric start. 13/

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@berkeleyside "John Smith" is "known to Berkeleyside" -- so @berkeleyside is leveraging the trust they've just built to bolster his credibility. 12/

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@berkeleyside Let's look at why:

It's anonymous, citing doxxing concerns. Gonna let the hypocrisy just sit there. 11/

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@berkeleyside We say that literally. It is more morally reprehensible than any hit piece we've seen in the NYT, WaPo, NPR, etc. 10/

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@berkeleyside But here's point 2) -- today @berkeleyside gave a platform to the most reprehensible media "take" on antifa that we've yet seen. 9/

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@berkeleyside All good, right? Seems @berkeleyside served that goal of being independent from corporate media, right? 8/

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@berkeleyside … and proudly pinning their feature article, which prominently featured Black leaders. 7/

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@berkeleyside … representing themselves as a lone voice of reason as mainstream media ignored local accounts and coalition members … 6/

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@berkeleyside And @berkeleyside made sure they used that praise to burnish their brand, retweeting the thanks they received… 5/