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by worried4future
782 days ago
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His commentary isn't the exonerating statement you seem to think it is. By his own admission he sought to join the protestors (he went to the lounge on the 10th floor of Google’s New York City office around lunchtime to check out the protest) and spent an indeterminate amount of time talking with protestors the first time around (I talked to folks who were standing up, passing out flyers, doing other roles) Anyway it doesn't matter if he spent 40 minutes talking to them, four hours talking to them or 4 minutes talking to them |
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He went to "check out", and for a fraction of that time "talk with" the protestors, by the words you are quoting.
To "join the protestors" (implying some sort of direct participation) would of course be something entirely different, and in no way grounded in the description we have.
It doesn't matter 4 hours v. 4 min
An impartial observer of the situation would most likely strongly disagree with that take. In any case it certainly doesn't sound (from the description we have) that the net duration was anywhere near the former value. More likely it was around 20 min max.
So far we only have this one person's recollection of the events, where he has a huge bias towards trying to minimize his involvement.
Could be, who knows.
But from the weird semantic distortions you're attempting to lay over the words we do have from this guy -- it seems you're basically assuming he must be guilty of something awful, and therefore to be lying in some major way, also.