Interview · moment 7 of 14
Getting Retweeted by Nazis and Twitter Hate Mobs
from Torching Bridges (with David Angelo) · #31
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4 minGuest
David describes the danger of being 'co-opted' online, including having tweets retweeted by Richard Spencer and Ann Coulter, and describes vowing after the election to just be funny rather than engage in Twitter wars.
- 23:18Tim's eight-year position: stop giving power to the federal government, or you end up with a Trump who has too much power.
- 23:49The media manufactures fake outrage daily—like the time they said Trump photoshopped his hands.
- 24:07Saying you need to violently stop someone you disagree with is fascism, not antifascism.
- 24:30Tim protested the Iraq War in college and wanted to engage with people he disagreed with to discredit them through debate.
- 25:04Nazis and white supremacists are the easiest people to debate, so why are activists afraid to face them?
- 25:44A comic with 200 followers in the liberal show business circle called Tim a Nazi sympathizer on a factual tweet about Richard Spencer.
- 26:27Tim insists nothing he says is particularly bad and doesn't even have a pinned tweet supporting Trump.
- 26:53Stop denying facts: the travel ban isn't technically a Muslim ban, but it does primarily affect Muslims.
- 27:11The ban affects everyone it targets, even if it doesn't cover all Muslims.