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Before anyone comes in and acts like this is wrong: attaching a face to a 'free speech' protest is perfectly OK. There's no legal penalties for saying horrific
by deft 9y ago
Before anyone comes in and acts like this is wrong: attaching a face to a 'free speech' protest is perfectly OK. There's no legal penalties for saying horrific racist comments, but there are social ones.
Props to these people, however I hope there aren't any mistaken identities.
- yahna 9y agoSocial ones like harassment, doxxing, people going after your job, family, death threats, etc... Social media mobs also tend not to get it right consistently, or go for any sort of a real standard. See the guys reddit was all over after the Boston Bombing. At the same time, this > “I understand the photo has a very negative connotation,” he said. “But I hope that the people sharing the photo are willing to listen that I’m not the angry racist they see in that photo.” From a guy marching with Nazis. Really dude, you aren't a racist? Your argument for why you aren't a racist for marching with Nazis is that you were only doing it to defend a statue of a guy who fought a war to defend slavery.
- berberous 9y agoWhile it's hard to feel any sympathy for this particular group of nazi losers, I think Slate Star Codex makes some decent points about the dangers of this kind of behavior: http://slatestarcodex.com/2017/07/29/against-signal-boosting-as-doxxing/ http://slatestarcodex.com/2017/07/29/against-signal-boosting...