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"It's her fault for not picking a more secure bathroom."

This is literally where they are now. https://t.co/ErAOTVI9up

— Tom Nichols (@RadioFreeTom) October 5, 2021

I read that, and wondered where this originated, so I went to the origin:

OMG, no one is saying that. She's a US senator, she can demand privacy and will receive it in a heartbeat amd was being filmed long before she entered the bathroom.

— Aunt🐜Squirrel🐿 PRO CHOICE (@CherylKohs) October 5, 2021

U.S. Senators travel with Secret Service support? Or burly men in sunglasses? Not helping her credibility. Then again, this wasn’t wrong either, IMHO:

Using a Tweet from someone with 173 followers to “prove” your point is where we are now.

— Tommy Ben Bergman (@TBApple) October 5, 2021

Of course, neither was this:

How was she dressed

— AntifaHat (@Popehat) October 5, 2021

But the funny part is, none of them actually knew what happened.

Senator Sinema works hard on behalf of Arizonans every day and this is not the way to handle disagreements. These actions were completely inappropriate. https://t.co/lfvIKQRwGl

— Senator Mark Kelly (@SenMarkKelly) October 4, 2021

Apparently the Senator was leading a class? In what was supposed to be a secured building? (So she did ask for privacy?) I’m guessing the building was closed to prevent precisely what happened: activists interrupting the class to demand the Senator answer their questions. Lots of comments in the Twitter feed from people arguing she was “asking for it” because she hasn’t talked to her constituents to their satisfaction. And then these activists followed a group into the bathroom?

I have no reason to doubt the Senator’s story (it’s not like she’s ducking a scandal). And nobody on those two Twitter threads knew more of the facts than the video revealed. Maybe they should have considered that.

I gotta agree with Sen. Kelly: these actions were completely inappropriate. And people on Twitter continue to cover themselves in glory, rushing in where angels fear to tread.

We should all just stay away from the back fence.