cobbledstories:

robotmango:

i had a discussion today with a friend who was genuinely trying to understand why people are working so hard to ID the charlottesville nazis and contact their employers. “but won’t that just make them more desperate and violent?” they asked. “if they get fired from their jobs or kicked out of school? if they think they have nothing to lose?”

and i said, “i don’t know. maybe. but right now, these motherfuckers think they can be nazis on the weekend.”

like, i somewhat understood my friend’s hesitance re: doxxing, because doxxing is so often a tool of evil. but these motherfuckers think they can show up to a white supremacist rally on saturday where people got fucking murdered by white supremacists, and then on monday they can go back to the IT desk and log into outlook and answer their fucking office phone. they think they can show up to a rally on saturday with a shield and a helmet and beat black teenagers with fucking sticks in a parking garage, and on monday they can be back on campus, taking notes in accounting. these putrid pieces of human garbage think they can be nazis all weekend, and then on thursday they can go to the professional development workshop with the department and enjoy those brownies that diane brought in.

no. no, they fucking cannot.

if you want to be a goddamned weekend nazi, you have to be a nazi every goddamned day. you want to be a weekend nazi? then you face the fucking music on monday, you cowardly piece of shit. you go ahead and live in a world where your hatred of other people means nobody wants to hire you, work with you, live with you, break bread with you; you hateful fuck. you get to suffer the natural consequences of your belief in the lesser humanity of others. you get to live the outcome of your violence, your acts of bigotry. you get to live your ugly truth, alone.

This post had a good heart, BUT these people need to be identified by experts, not vigilantes on Tumblr. Doxxing goes south so often for a REASON: people get misidentified very easily. I’ve been informed that there’s already been a case of a guy getting misidentified from this rally, and he is now in danger and in need of protection from people who believe they are enacting vigilante justice. (http://5newsonline.com/2017/08/12/university-of-arkansas-responds-to-rally-photo/) I saw a post earlier that was spreading around info that Kyle Quinn was the University of Arkansas shirt man in the photo. THIS INFO IS WRONG.

If you’re a coworker, or peer, or neighbor of one of these people in the photos, and know them well enough to be able to say with certainty that it’s them, then yeah, go ahead and identify them! Don’t let them get away with it! If you’re not positive, maybe just shoot their company a quick email asking for confirmation about whether or not it’s them! DON’T spread your guess all over the internet. Innocent people will get hurt that way.