1/There& #39;s definitely a major epistemic breach opening up on the left and honestly Covington was what really revealed it to me in its full gravity for the first time. I vividly remember being like, "Okay, at XX:XX in the video you can literally SEE the protestor approach the kids,
2/you can watch him enter their circle, and then you can watch him beat the drum in front of Whatshisface for a few seconds, and Whatshisface just stands there smiling. Then like two minutes later, whoever I& #39;m talking to: "Yes but HE HARASSED that MAN." It was disturbing feeling
3/ like I was not watching the same video as people who were in the same Warren/Sanders political camp as me, no matter how many times you carefully walked them through exactly what it showed. The video didn& #39;t matter. When the video doesn& #39;t matter, shit& #39;s going south!
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