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In reply to the discussion: I don't think Julian Assange meant to leak this [View all]Hissyspit
(45,790 posts)From a Facebook poster:
"The tweet is really easy to misinterpret if you don't spend an inordinate amount of time on Twitter. There's a certain clique of sycophantic journalists who only suck up to politicians lest they lose access (so naturally, they hate Wikileaks for making life so difficult for their benefactors). Many of them have taken to co-opting a neo-Nazi signifier in their handle as a weird show of solidarity. Wikileaks was merely pointing out that by them doing this, the imagery now is more closely related to self-identification in their clique (most who are not Jewish) than the original meaning."
Clumsily done and ill-advised on Wikileaks part, for sure. Assange (apparently) walked into it, as can be seen in the lack of context (an important missing Tweet, for one thing) in the OP.