Controversial far-left opinion here, but I don't think nazis should be allowed to write news articles.
Like, at all. They shouldn't be allowed to write genocidal propaganda, but they shouldn't write anything even.
Further, I don't think anyone should buy newspapers from them.
So we're clear, this isn't me getting metaphorical or exaggerating.
I'm talking about actual nazis, the ones who really want to round up and kill all the Jews and all the queer people, and frankly cannot ever shut the hell up about it.
A lot of them write regular news articles.
I think the owners of the publications they write those articles for should stop publishing anything they write.
And this is apparently a very radical position because everyone else in the world kinda seems to just be in silent agreement that we all ignore that particularly loud
and genocidal elephant in the room.
Because like, publishing things that nazis write is really bad and harmful. And like, I don't even just think you shouldn't do that, but that there should be pretty serious social consequences for doing so. Like everyone drops your publication
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This is a situation that's really been weighing on me and I legitimately don't know what to do, so, put yourself in my shoes here a moment?
There's a person you kinda know. Seems cool. You have pretty similar goals. You promote each other. You've met a couple times face to face.
One day as part of a weird chain of circumstances, this person mixes up who they're talking to, and thinking they're talking to some rando, misgenders you, says a rumor a weird new hate group on the block is trying to spread that you're some kind of terrorist pedophile ringleader
is plausible and adds a bit about "having heard a lot of other things about them." You are, incidentally, a trans woman in this scenario, and this person knows damn well what your pronouns are.
So first obviously, you are going to remove this person from the "trustworthy friend"
This thread here is a real heck of a find. A few liner notes for those not familiar with this hate group:
- Constant praise for anyone who "calls them men" is referring to zealots committed to never referring to trans women with any term other than "men" under any circumstances.
- "True trans" in this context is, similarly, a condemnation of those who, while still openly dedicated to the cause of eventually exterminating all trans women, aren't fully committed to publicly denying that being trans is an actual thing, and will grant, at least in a vacuum,
that actual trans women do exist, at least potentially, in small numbers, which really gets under the skin of the bigot maintaining this list's desire for everyone to tow the most extreme of party lines that the entire concept of trans people existing or medical transition being
So, as "deradicalization" is a topic of the day, hello. I'm pretty damn well versed, studied up, and active in the field when it comes to far right groups, their radicalization process, various "false flag" tricks and recruitment efforts, the actual deradicalization process, and
what it looks like when someone has actually left a hate group and what it looks like when someone is pretending to.
The main thing people really seem to need to have stressed here is that in no way does a "deradicalized nazi" turn into some sort of equally zealous and crusading
"anti-nazi." That does not happen, ever. It's not like you go from a level 5 chaotic evil fighter to a level 5 lawful good one.
When someone actually stops being a nazi, they STOP. No more hanging around nazi hangouts, talking to their nazi friends, dealing with politics at all,
As a sidenote to that earlier thread, let me remind people I am fully open to and accepting of any apologies in a format similar to:
"Hey, I'm sorry I promoted a post from a major GG figure yesterday."
Other formats likely to get a quick "it's cool" and smile of relief include:
"Hey I'm sorry the other day I promoted the hell out of someone who's been spreading weird conspiracy theories about you being some sort of terrorist for years, I'd somehow missed all that."
and
"Hey I'm sorry I keep RTing that person who acted like your friend for years then
slipped up, misgendered you, implied some really horrific things speculations about your character, then blocked you and has avoided you since."
Possibly also:
"Hey, I'm sorry how acting on false information I wordlessly cut all ties with you 5 years ago and never looked back."
As we seem to be on the verge of at least formally getting a whole lot of fascists out of power, I'd like for us to take a moment and reflect on how they came into power in the first place. This is of course something I write about a lot, so for latecomers whitehatmag.com/editions/2017-…
The short version though is a bunch of straight up nazis with a fondness for hanging around on 4chan spent a few years refining techniques and establishing resources to spread disinformation, and
engage in targeted campaigns of harassment and terrorism effective enough to literally bring about the deaths of several people and figuratively destroy the lives of countless more, while completely avoiding any sort of culpability for anyone involved and indeed managing to paint
So this is random and not at all related to everyone's screaming in terror about the election, but it was my (observed) birthday over the weekend and two things happened: 1- A whole bunch of people ordered me a whole bunch of things off my Amazon wishlist. 2- A thief hit my mail.
So right now, I'm trying to work out exactly what was supposed to get here vs. what actually did get here, and turns out Amazon SUCKS SO BAD about visibility for these things.
I can't find out what was sent to me, at all. No tracking information, and I can't even verify what was
previously on the list and no longer is because someone ordered it. Very annoying.
Pretty sure I formally did the whole thank you e-mail with everything I definitely received, which for what it's worth was a bunch of Venture Bros. DVDs and a component for a Halloween costume and