Glenn Greenwald

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

That journalists interview all kinds of people - good, bad & between - is one of those previously accepted conventions nobody ever questioned until liberals decreed 6 second ago that nobody they dislike should be "platformed": just as they decry publication of non-liberal op-eds. — PolitiTweet.org

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

@Afterseven @nbarrett100 It's a list of the people liberals think are bad, responding to a liberal BBC journalist condemning me for interviewing Alex Jones. — PolitiTweet.org

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

RT @Cernovich: @nbarrett100 @ggreenwald The BBC begged Alex Jones for interviews. I even got emails from them asking me to pass along an in… — PolitiTweet.org

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

@nathanoseroff Oh, wow - you already saw the interview and know what kind if was? That comes as a shock to me, since I'm the one conducting it and am pretty sure it has not yet happened. — PolitiTweet.org

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

@js_thrill @nathanoseroff That you think you can judge an interview that hasn't happened yet, about a film you haven't seen, based on a promotional photo for the event, either means you have such extraordinary future-telling powers you could make a fortune at carnivals, or you're extremely irrational. — PolitiTweet.org

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

RT @ggreenwald: @nbarrett100 Your employer interviewed Osama bin Laden, Bashar al Assad, Nicolas Maduro, Charles Manson, Tony Blair after h… — PolitiTweet.org

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

@nbarrett100 Your employer interviewed Osama bin Laden, Bashar al Assad, Nicolas Maduro, Charles Manson, Tony Blair after his criminal invasion of Iraq, Nigel Farage, and other assorted war criminals and serial murderers around the world, so I hardly think you're in a position to sermonize. https://t.co/l4n7lvwPOE — PolitiTweet.org

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

How fucking stupid does someone have to be to think that doing a film about someone or interviewing them means you think they're great people who have done great things? What kind of stunted brain can produce such a primitive belief? Only liberal culture: https://t.co/3WLs6wx9ZX — PolitiTweet.org

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

@nathanoseroff Would you interview world leaders who have started wars and instituted torture regimes such as George W. Bush and Barack Obama? Would you interview serial killers like Charles Manson and Ted Bundy to understand them? Would you do a film on J Edgar Hoover? All this has been done. — PolitiTweet.org

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

@moogman2268 I didn't say Alex was a journalist. i said this film is not a celebration of him but an attempt to understand what gave rise to him and his popularity. Understanding root causes of things rather than just denouncing like terrorism and crime is something the left used to support. — PolitiTweet.org

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

@proud_damascene I should also point out that Aaron Mate is also Jewish, so, in addition to your spending your morning trying to get your followers to harass and abuse an LGBT journalist, you did the same for two Jewish journalists, as if we don't get enough abuse online. I hope you're proud. — PolitiTweet.org

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

@proud_damascene I should also point out that Aaron Mate is also Jewish, so, in addition to your spending your morning trying to get your followers to harass and abuse an LGBT journalist, you did the same for two Jewish journalists, as if we don't get enough abuse online. I hope you're proud. — PolitiTweet.org

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

@proud_damascene Here's one of the horde of anti-gay followers you have claiming I have sex with Putin and Assad. This is the bigoted bile you purposely unleashed, singling out an openly LGBT Jewish journalist. Stop playing innocent. You knew what you were doing: https://t.co/TBnogA8MOw — PolitiTweet.org

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

@moogman2268 Yes, when I wrote articles about the root causes of anti-American terrorism, that's what neocons said: victims of 9/11 and various bombings would object. Same thing the right said about those seeking to understand the roots of violent crime. All anti-intellectual stupidity. — PolitiTweet.org

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

@proud_damascene If nobody respects me, then why would you care about what I say? How could I incite people to attack those I target if nobody respects me? You've proven yourself to be a vicious anti-Semite and homophobe - as you intended, I'm being abused by your followers - so congrats. — PolitiTweet.org

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

@BlueBoxDave I've been there, too, and most definitely did not leave with a desire to build a world that replicated it and contained nothing else in it but that. — PolitiTweet.org

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

Anyway, not only would a rule that one speaks or engages with exclusively left-liberals be a corrupting and absurd way to do journalism, I also can't think of a drearier or less interesting way to navigate life. Imagine: your whole world consists of Amy Klobuchar and Chris Hayes. — PolitiTweet.org

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

@AliceFromQueens It's central to how left-liberals think. It even extends to the NYT op-ed page, a section created to air the full range of debate that America is having. Every time there's an op-ed there by someone Bad, or that says something Bad, they think an immorality has been done. — PolitiTweet.org

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

Like clockwork, a bunch of liberal idiots who haven't seen the film arise to say it gives him "credibility." They have no idea what's in the film. One could easily walk away hating him. They just think the only way to deal with Bad Things is ignore them: https://t.co/WzRoFISpyz — PolitiTweet.org

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

The film is already being censored by Big Tech, including Facebook, Google and TikTok. Jones was the first test case of Big Tech uniting to immediately "de-person" someone from the internet. Many warned how quickly that would grow. More here on the film: https://t.co/OnkBFsfauI — PolitiTweet.org

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

This new Alex Jones doc by the same filmmaker, Alex Lee Moyer, debuts in Austin this month. Like her film on "incels," it avoids sanctimony and posturing. Shows the audience why Alex Jones happened. It's fascinating. I'm excited to speak at the preview: https://t.co/gw5yCBUlER — PolitiTweet.org

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

The best documentaries avoid preaching and shoving pre-packaged beliefs down the audience's throat. They instead do their best to objectively show the phenomenon and its causes, and let the audience decide for themselves (!). @jacobin on "tfw no gf": https://t.co/cqk7cIJrBv — PolitiTweet.org

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

With any significant phenomenon, one can choose to either to understand its roots or just jump up and down denouncing it. The old left always advocated understanding root causes (crime, terrorism, etc). The new version thinks you should never study or engage with anything Bad. — PolitiTweet.org

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

Of course a bunch of left-liberals who believe journalists should only speak to left-liberals are upset about this -- that's why their faction is so irrelevant -- but Alex Lee Moyer's film about incel culture ("tfw no gf") was a brilliantly objective study, as is this new film: — PolitiTweet.org

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

@proud_damascene And my criticism of that Sophie person for demanding Russell Brand not speak to Aaron Mate has nothing to do with her gender, yet you still claimed I was "abusing women." How can you be so fucking stupid as to not realize I'm applying your own primitive, slimy standards to you? — PolitiTweet.org

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

@4kshatra @proud_damascene This kind of left-wing discourse is so boring and alienating to virtually everyone because of its dreary stupidity: its only purpose is to imply someone is a bigot. Of course you don't mind your friend's vicious abuse and incitement of hatred against LGBT and Jewish journalists. — PolitiTweet.org

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

@proud_damascene You began this exchange by attacking an LGBT journalist for being a misogynist: one of the oldest, ugliest and most destructive anti-gay tropes: all because I criticized a professor who you can't see as anything other than a damsel in distress. Live with your own tactics. — PolitiTweet.org

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

@LukeHen14742884 @proud_damascene Another homophobic anti-Semite follower of @proud_damascene rears his ugly, bigoted head. How many are in his army of haters? — PolitiTweet.org

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

@proud_damascene Hey, you piece of shit, you crawled to me to invoke a classic homophobic trope -- that by criticizing a female professor I was misogynistically "abusing" her -- and then when your slimy standards were applied to you, you whine about it. Your hatred for Jews and LGBTs is palpable. — PolitiTweet.org

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

@rhonda_harbison @florida_sophia Wow, how bizarre that journalists are paid by platforms to publish their work on those platforms! Have you notified the FBI of this scandalous discovery of yours? — PolitiTweet.org