So, Ilhan Omar is trending for calling out a journalist (RE: the Canadian trucker convoy)

[demmiblue]

I fail to see why any journalist felt the need to report on a shop owner making such a insignificant donation rather than to get them harassed. It’s unconscionable and journalists need to do better. https://twitter.com/alisonmah/stat

I wish journalists wrote the articles they think they are writing.

Sorry to say it, but your stories aren’t always balanced and often have a clear political bias.

Calling it out isn’t harassment or journalist bashing. Everyone has a right to critique your story and it’s merits.

Ps. I fully read the article multiple times and I still don’t believe there was merit to the story as reported other than further harassment. You all are entitled to your opinions, but my opinion remains the same. These kinds of stories ruin people’s lives and are uncalled for.

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A journalist *didn’t* report on the shop owner’s $250 donation. The shop owner’s name appeared on the leaked donor list, then on Twitter. The journalist reported on the threats the shop owner received after her name was leaked. You should correct your tweet.

It literally says this in the article she’s quote-tweeting, which she apparently didn’t read.

The journalist whom Ilhan Omar falsely accused of doxing a convoy donor and inciting harassment against them has now been forced to lock her account because of the harassment she’s receiving over this false claim.

Also worth noting: Rep. Omar is regurgitating right-wing disinfo.

Just a thought, but maybe don’t jump in the middle of a complicated and very tense situation in another country if you don’t know enough about that country and the ongoing situation to avoid making things worse. That goes for everyone, but especially elected officials.

The Daily Caller — the right-wing publication cofounded by Tucker Carlson — is celebrating Ilhan Omar for falsely accusing a journalist of doxing a convoy donor.

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Here is the article in question: https://ottawacitizen.com/news/local-news/threats-close-stella-luna-gelato-cafe-after-owners-name-appears-in-givesendgo-data-leak

[Me.]

1. It Is Indeed Right Wing Info

Why?

[Hortensis]

2. What kind of people follow her feed that the reaction includes

so many of the aggressively nasty type?

Most congressmen could post on funding the truckers in Canada and get just a few rather surprised but mostly unremarkable comments from their own constituents, including asking how funding for their new bridge or hospital is coming.

[Keket]

3. We absolutely do need to know who these people are

In the months since January 6th, it's become apparent that the right wing is composed largely of terrorists and terrorist sympathizers. These people are dangerous and the normal non-terrorists in this country have a right to know who the terrorists are.

I know for certain that I wouldn't want to do business with an insurrectionist, closeted or otherwise. We need to name and shame all of these violent bastards. We need to cast them out of our social and professional circles.

These are people that deserve to be doxxed and they deserve to be shunned.

Keket
~You can be a good person or you can be a Republican. You can't be both.