When you’re marching around in public as part of a hate group, people can widely distribute photos of you and ID you via crowdsourcing. First off, a caution–be damned sure about someone’s identity before you tag them with something like this, and secondly, if you actually can positively identify any of these white supremacists, please do. They wanted to tell the whole world what they thought, so it seems proper that the parts of the world closest to them shouldn’t be left out of knowing what they think.
I don’t know what’s more precious–that Cole White lost his job at Top Dog, LLC (ohh, so sorry, it turns out “assclown” is not a legally protected class!), or that Peter Cvjetanovic is now making the media rounds saying “that’s not me in those super-clear photos!” (when it definitely is – it reminds me of when Richard Spencer recently denied he was Richard Spencer because he was too delicate of a snowflake to cope with being disliked in public). It’s like there’s consequences or something. I wonder if he’s also going to deny that’s him in those (not rally-related) photos with US Senator Dean Heller, or vice-versa.
More consequences (preferably law-enforcement-style consequences, but I’m not picky) are needed to make sure this shit gets shut down right now. Or at least make the Klansmen have to wear their goofy hoods again.
Yeah, get those Nazis! Fuck 'em, and what are the chances the angry mob of
losersinternet detectives get the wrong person? Next to none, I’m sure. Oh shit.https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/14/us/charlottesville-doxxing.html
Hmm, I’m suddenly reminded of /pol/'s mad attempts to find the person who committed the vehicular terror attack that day, only to find the wrong guy.
I was pretty heated when I wrote this, so here’s a (hopefully more measured) part 2.
I am not particularly bothered by these people being identified. I think that the second that they decide to go public with their hatred, they need to be ready for the consequences. These people do deserve to be mocked and shamed, they’re reprehensible, but I’m really tired of people being falsely identified. This isn’t the first time people have decided that they would take matters into their own hands, only to accuse someone totally innocent. This happened with the Boston Bombing, too. I just wish that, if this witch-hunting is going to happen, people were a little more cautious about it. These kinds of accusations can seriously ruin lives, there is no room for mistakes.