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Naomi Wolf’s ‘Shocking Truths’ on #OWS Crackdowns are False
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Naomi Wolf’s feverish article charging that the crackdowns of occupy locations were being coordinated by federal law enforcement agencies has captured the #OWS collective consciousness.
And, as it turns out, the sole basis for her article — Rick Ellis’s article in Examiner.com — was debunked by Ellis himself nine days before Wolf decided to feed her feverish fact-free article to the frenzied masses.
The Naomi Wolf article in question is the one that was posted here.
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Another thorough debunking.
Correlation does not imply causation. Extraordinary claims etc.
There is a lot of “truthiness” in Ms. Wolf’s work and she is very passionate, but for me it is undermined by tl;dr and poor fact-checking.
For example: a possible explanation for the number of Occupy shutdowns happening in the same week or two is that the authorities in each jurisdiction had access to media reports about what was happening elsewhere. However, it would not surprise me if there was some “collusion” – after all there are regular conferences of municipal officers, so they certainly know one another well enough to ask advice especially on the subject of “security”.
All this is a complete distraction from the issues of economic justice, political paralysis, and a potential world economic slump.
Her 10 steps to fascism are still 100% reality today.