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Back in May, the NY Times did a piece on anti-maskers that started with a scene of a seemingly normal person, Genevieve Peters (originally with a fake name), refusing to wear a mask at the Rancho Palos Verdes Trader Joe’s here in California. 1/ https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/15/us/coronavirus-masks-violence.html
I noted at the time that the Times article got her name wrong and omitted that Ms. Peters is a well-known LA area far-right provocateur. (She appeared at the Culver City council meeting where @danielwaynelee0 and I took our seats and instigated a scene.) 2/
Well, here she is in Michigan taking part in an armed group intimidating the Michigan Secretary of State in her home. 3/ https://www.npr.org/sections/biden-transition-updates/2020/12/07/943820889/michigan-secretary-of-state-says-armed-protesters-descended-on-her-home-saturday
Journalists: get it together. There are not actually that many of these nuts. They are not a popular movement (yet). They are fringe, anti-American figures and should be identified as such—not covered as if they are ordinary people moved by a unique moment. /end
