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Is there any context available on what the employee was accused of doing?

throwawaygh 6y ago
The employee made comments on internal slack channels warning their coworkers in DC to be careful because there were a large number of nazis at the Capitol. https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Ery62NKUcAY6DlR?format=jpg&name=large https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Ery62NKUcAY6DlR?format=jpg&name=...
- nailer 6y ago
  Further: the employee was seen to be mischaracterising the protestors/rioters (take your pic) as nazis. The claims 'there were literal nazi flags' (see https://cdn.vox-cdn.com/thumbor/8a1wytwIU2Ic52sok2ly14RUQNM=/0x0:923x1655/1320x0/filters:focal(0x0:923x1655):format(webp):no_upscale()/cdn.vox-cdn.com/uploads/chorus_asset/file/22238195/screen_shot_001.jpg https://cdn.vox-cdn.com/thumbor/8a1wytwIU2Ic52sok2ly14RUQNM=...) seem to based on the very broad assumption that Confederate, Kekistan, upside down US flags, 'release the kraken' etc flags are Nazis. See https://qz.com/1953366/decoding-the-pro-trump-insurrectionist-flags-and-banners/ https://qz.com/1953366/decoding-the-pro-trump-insurrectionis... for an example. Update: this comment has been been flagged, but let me point out: 1. The comment was 'there were literal nazi flags'. We are still at 0 nazi flags. 2. The 'six million' shirt pointed out by Griffinsauce below wasn't from the Capitol: https://forward.com/fast-forward/461761/fact-check-the-6-million-wasnt-enough-shirt-wasnt-from-the-capitol-siege/ https://forward.com/fast-forward/461761/fact-check-the-6-mil... The guy in the Auschwitz hoodie is a nazi and obviously an even bigger moron than the other rioters but maybe we'd be able to find out more about actual extremists if we didn't label everything we don't like as extremist?
  - underseacables 6y ago
    How is that inappropriate? The employee should have stayed separated.
  - diarmuidc 6y ago
    Here's a literal Nazi rioter. https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/man-camp-auschwitz-shirt-photographed-u-s-capitol-riot-arrested-n1254070 https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/man-camp-auschwitz-shir...
    - nailer 6y ago
      Yep, acknowledged. That man is a nazi.
  - temac 6y ago
    I don't know if there were literal nazi flags, but there certainly were literal nazi clothes, e.g. https://images.jpost.com/image/upload/f_auto,fl_lossy/t_JD_ArticleMainImageFaceDetect/469232 https://images.jpost.com/image/upload/f_auto,fl_lossy/t_JD_A...
  - stefan_ 6y ago
    You can be both of these things. The guy in the Camp Auschwitz hoodie can be a nazi and a protestor!
  - Griffinsauce 6y ago
    There is lots of evidence that there were nazis among the insurrectionists. Shirts with references to Aushwitch, "six million wasn't enough" etc. How much research have you done before reaching your very definitive and incorrect conclusion?
    - mindslight 6y ago
      We don't have to resort to technicalities. This attack was a reactionary populist movement, led by white supremacist groups (eg the poor boys). It is a stretch to label the whole thing "Nazi", but only slightly. Republicans are currently faced with a choice - conservatism xor this new reactionary populism. If you're an actual conservative and don't appreciate your own voice being pigeonholed with the neo-Naziism, then work to cut the cancer out of your party.
    - nailer 6y ago
      The "'six million wasn't enough' at the Capitol" was a hoax. See the update above. How much research did you do?
      - Griffinsauce 6y ago
        Witnesses stated they saw it. The picture being circulated is an example. Some people ran with that being a shot from there. So "hoax"? Not quite, but granted, there is no evidence as of yet. Okay so we're down to several references to Aushwitch then. Plus the fact that the groups involved have a well documented connection.
        nailer 6y ago
        No. Someone confirmed the picture as being from a different event. That the '6 million' shirt was at the Capitol is proven false. We're down to one Auschwitz reference. One too many. But still nothing like 'actual Nazi flags'. Again: how much research did you do?

The employee made comments on internal slack channels warning their coworkers in DC to be careful because there were a large number of nazis at the Capitol. https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Ery62NKUcAY6DlR?format=jpg&name=large https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Ery62NKUcAY6DlR?format=jpg&name=...

nailer 6y ago
Further: the employee was seen to be mischaracterising the protestors/rioters (take your pic) as nazis. The claims 'there were literal nazi flags' (see https://cdn.vox-cdn.com/thumbor/8a1wytwIU2Ic52sok2ly14RUQNM=/0x0:923x1655/1320x0/filters:focal(0x0:923x1655):format(webp):no_upscale()/cdn.vox-cdn.com/uploads/chorus_asset/file/22238195/screen_shot_001.jpg https://cdn.vox-cdn.com/thumbor/8a1wytwIU2Ic52sok2ly14RUQNM=...) seem to based on the very broad assumption that Confederate, Kekistan, upside down US flags, 'release the kraken' etc flags are Nazis. See https://qz.com/1953366/decoding-the-pro-trump-insurrectionist-flags-and-banners/ https://qz.com/1953366/decoding-the-pro-trump-insurrectionis... for an example. Update: this comment has been been flagged, but let me point out: 1. The comment was 'there were literal nazi flags'. We are still at 0 nazi flags. 2. The 'six million' shirt pointed out by Griffinsauce below wasn't from the Capitol: https://forward.com/fast-forward/461761/fact-check-the-6-million-wasnt-enough-shirt-wasnt-from-the-capitol-siege/ https://forward.com/fast-forward/461761/fact-check-the-6-mil... The guy in the Auschwitz hoodie is a nazi and obviously an even bigger moron than the other rioters but maybe we'd be able to find out more about actual extremists if we didn't label everything we don't like as extremist?
- underseacables 6y ago
  How is that inappropriate? The employee should have stayed separated.
- diarmuidc 6y ago
  Here's a literal Nazi rioter. https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/man-camp-auschwitz-shirt-photographed-u-s-capitol-riot-arrested-n1254070 https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/man-camp-auschwitz-shir...
  - nailer 6y ago
    Yep, acknowledged. That man is a nazi.
- temac 6y ago
  I don't know if there were literal nazi flags, but there certainly were literal nazi clothes, e.g. https://images.jpost.com/image/upload/f_auto,fl_lossy/t_JD_ArticleMainImageFaceDetect/469232 https://images.jpost.com/image/upload/f_auto,fl_lossy/t_JD_A...
- stefan_ 6y ago
  You can be both of these things. The guy in the Camp Auschwitz hoodie can be a nazi and a protestor!
- Griffinsauce 6y ago
  There is lots of evidence that there were nazis among the insurrectionists. Shirts with references to Aushwitch, "six million wasn't enough" etc. How much research have you done before reaching your very definitive and incorrect conclusion?
  - mindslight 6y ago
    We don't have to resort to technicalities. This attack was a reactionary populist movement, led by white supremacist groups (eg the poor boys). It is a stretch to label the whole thing "Nazi", but only slightly. Republicans are currently faced with a choice - conservatism xor this new reactionary populism. If you're an actual conservative and don't appreciate your own voice being pigeonholed with the neo-Naziism, then work to cut the cancer out of your party.
  - nailer 6y ago
    The "'six million wasn't enough' at the Capitol" was a hoax. See the update above. How much research did you do?
    - Griffinsauce 6y ago
      Witnesses stated they saw it. The picture being circulated is an example. Some people ran with that being a shot from there. So "hoax"? Not quite, but granted, there is no evidence as of yet. Okay so we're down to several references to Aushwitch then. Plus the fact that the groups involved have a well documented connection.
      - nailer 6y ago
        No. Someone confirmed the picture as being from a different event. That the '6 million' shirt was at the Capitol is proven false. We're down to one Auschwitz reference. One too many. But still nothing like 'actual Nazi flags'. Again: how much research did you do?