I actually cannot believe that ABC interviewed the ‘chairman’ of the Proud Boys Enrique Tarrio to get his side and to broadcast his justifications #4corners

I guess when people called them out and begged them not to platform your ‘every day white supremacist’ they just decided to platform the leader of the proud boys??????

Asking the leader of the Proud Boys if a spiked baseball bat is an ‘image of violence’ and giving him a chance to say it isn’t before moving on to the next topic is not the gotcha moment you think it is

I want to leave this here as a resource, please take the time to read it if you can. Especially if you work in media/journalism #4corners https://twitter.com/arielbogle/status/1350723558301831170

Tarrio is being investigated and has legal cases. He would only do this interview if he & legal team believe it’ll help his case and/or the image of the Proud Boys in Australia and overseas. ABC got a high profile interviewee for prestige and Tarrio got a platform & legitimacy

You actually *can* critically report, dissect, debunk, and delegitimise these harmful ideologies without granting the source a national platform. Interviewing and platforming white supremacists is not a requirement for covering and resisting white supremacy.

I know suburban mums in Australia who genuinely believe that the capitol footage is fake/doctored. They don’t even follow politics and are not active in any online platforms. Having footage interlaced with Tarrio doesn’t automatically delegitimise him in the way you’d think