Sadly, this is what they always do - Attack the Messenger.
They attack you personally because their arguments are paper thin and they would like to make this about you and not about the vital information/awareness that you bring to the public.
They want to silence you and marginalize you because you're effective and we no longer believe the lies and propaganda that they force upon us every single day.
Keep your chin up Caitlin, 'the people' know this is a smear job and we see right through it. You're a beacon of light and an artist with deep love for your fellow woman and man.
I recently watched your interview with @thejimmydoreshow where he was reading your poetry, remarkable!
This is part of a psyops initiative to stifle dissent. Which CIA Director does the NYT have on retainer?
I've seen pieces in the New Yorker, the NYT, and the Atlantic in the last few weeks equating the violent and intolerant Left with the violent and intolerant Right.
Anti-Solidarity Anti-Fascist Hitpiece
"We're All Fascists Now" in the NYT (archive.is link), suggests that because an AEI anti-feminist was called a fascist, we're all fascists now.
Except nobody was called a fascist but the self professed feminst who works for one of the most anti-feminist and protofascist institutions in America. There was a sell out for money. A sell out to dogma. White patrician racist something or other. Social media was mean to another... But the only one who was calleda fascist was the feminist scholar at AEI. Which is a completely debatable point, not ridiculous, and certainly not outside of reasonable hyperbole.
But nobody else was called a fascist. So we're apparently not all fascists.
The piece, IMO, is the very worst kind of hit piece. The ease of conflation combined with the hyperbolic framing, paranoia, and protest imagery paints a very disturbing picture; similar to poor lighting or selective editing, it delivers a message under cover of truth.
I think it is fairly rank propaganda, but we're apparently not all there yet...
Everyone Not Like Us Are Fascists, Commies, Dupes of Fascists or Commies, Fascist Commies, Commie Fascists... Did I miss anything?
The projection is stunning. This shit is everywhere, too.
To see this psyops campaign so nakedly pointed at you, @caitlinjohnstone, is terrible. Makes me angry and scares me.
When you've touched a nerve you know you must be doing something right.