General Discussion
In reply to the discussion: Wow. Bravenak (DU member) going at it with Sarandon! [View all]JCanete
(5,272 posts)Dolores Huerta has seen actual harassment. Somebody challenging her statements and her perspective publicly is what public figures can expect and should be perfectly capable of handling. As to the shouting bullshit, I've seen the video 10 times trying to see where that occurs. If somebody would like to post it and tell me what exact second that starts, by all means...
Also, do you have a correlation to some of those comments and Sarandon's retweet? Some are absolutely offensive but at the same time, indicate in no way that those people arrived at Bravenak's tweet through Sarandon's retweet to other activists. Is there something I don't understand about how this works where you can actually make that connection? Is it impossible that any of those people ran into the original tweet? Yes, some obviously come from Sarandon lovers but this writer hasn't bothered to distinguish those obvious ones from the rest. Oh wow...the writer does address this...at the end...an admission that some of those tweets listed may not have any correlation. Fucking A. Why post them then with the suggestion that they did and then wait til the bottom of the page to weasel on it?
Also, if you are tweeting to others and generating Sarandon hate in the public sphere, which is your right...she is a public figure and she has made herself a lightning rod, aren't you wading into that political discourse? Should you be off limits to people tweeting back at you? Are you not making yourself a public figure? Does the article have anything to suggest that Sarandon in any way advocates those offensive comments?
That said, I wish Bravenak well and of course some of those assholes are beyond the pale. I don't see how her feeding this rift between people on the left helps anymore than her opinion of Sarandon's actions does, but I've had some very civil and thought-provoking discussions with her here, and her initial posts, always designed to draw the most responses(and they did that well) were far more inciting than her more reasoned follow-ups.