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Eileen Clancy
@clancyny.bsky.social
Studying and researching History of Science, Technology, and Computing. Many careered, video archivist. Earnest poster. Enthusiastic and clumsy. Insufficiently reverent. Degree: Digital Humanities. Cis lesbian.
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A thread showing one way social media can be dangerous to you. A provocateur, taking advantage of an ordinary person's frustration about events, makes a semi-cloaked call for violence hoping you'll agree. Re: last night's thread on a NYC antiwar protest where police knocked a woman unconscious.

alerie @valerietheitalian.bsky.social
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6h
how much are they gonna do this before we defend ourselves?

Eileen Clancy @clancyny.bsky.social
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6h
Ok, let's get real for a second.

What do you mean by "defend ourselves?" What does that describe? 

And how familiar are you with NYC policing? Do you understand how violent they are toward protesters?

Valerie @valerietheitalian.bsky.social
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6h
Whatever would need to be done to prevent the protesters from being injured or killed, I would imagine.

I'm not much more familiar with NYC policing than in general
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Nnewneck.bsky.social

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JKjoekatz45.bsky.social

Some of those replies were something. I particularly loved the shocked "do you think the *FBI* would *hire someone* to pretend to be *trans* on the *Internet*????"

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Rschopenhowitzer.bsky.social

Thank you

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DC6sidedgames.bsky.social

Appreciate the breakdown on what language means what.

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ECclancyny.bsky.social

They know nothing about NYC cops. STFU is free? "Whatever would need to be done" = Vague + menacing "how much are they gonna do this before we defend ourselves?" Who's "We"? I recount dangerous real event. Say aggression gets big charges. "protesters [shouldn't] play nice" What if you're dead?

Eileen Clancy @clancyny.bsky.social
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57m
NYC cops can be quite violent toward protesters. I've seen them deliberately run over people with horses. I jumped onto the hood of a car to get out of harm's way. Others weren't so lucky.

Anything  construed as physical defense will be taken as aggression. Resulting in serious charges.

Valerie @valerietheitalian.bsky.social
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45m
Seems to me like they aren't waiting for the protesters to be aggressive back. At some point, the protesters will realize they can't get anywhere by plating nice. Serious charges mean nothing to the dead.
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Eileen Clancy
@clancyny.bsky.social
Studying and researching History of Science, Technology, and Computing. Many careered, video archivist. Earnest poster. Enthusiastic and clumsy. Insufficiently reverent. Degree: Digital Humanities. Cis lesbian.
4.7k followers2.2k following18k posts