White Nationalists #nazis showed up in Kamloops today to protest ahead of Truth and Reconciliation Day.

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        Can I be honest for one second? There’s not even a need for a tough guy bullshit. I’m astounded that not a single nutbag hasn’t shot at these kinds of fuckers.

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        Tell you the uncomfortable reality, these fuck wits have to be beaten every time the step out. Anything less and they think there is some sort of acceptance of them.

        Why do you think they use violence?

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          You’re expressing yourself emotionally. That’s valid. But you can’t also make a serious point at the same time. People ranting and swearing while they casually discuss taking human life on online forums are rarely serious people who have any idea what they are talking about.

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            Oh boy. You’re gonna be so surprised when being nice doesn’t get rid of the fascists.

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        We don’t have to be tough to eliminate the conservative threat. We just have to be willing to finish Sherman’s work.

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        It is legal to be violent against civil rights activitists. The only time right wing people are prosecuted is after intense pressure applied on authorities and they know this.

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    My favourite Nazis are 6 feet under. These clowns should join them.

    Fuck Nazis. Fuck fascism. Fuck these cowards.

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      Sorry can’t kill an ideology with violence only create martyr and future flare up this is a job for education and address socioeconomic factors that allow vulnerable people to be sucked into supremacist gangs.

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        Two truths that are not in conflict with each oner: 1) fascism is a systemic issue and as ideology will outlive any individual; 2) fascist individuals should not be tolerated

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          “They say the prisoner of Spandau was a symbol of defeat Whilst Hess remained in prison, and the fascists they were beat

          So the promise of an Aryan world wold never materialize

          So why did they all come out of the woodwork on the day the Nazi died” - Chumbawumba

          (We didn’t kill enough Nazis the first time)

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            The world is riddled with maggots and the maggots are getting fat.

            Love that song and Chumbawumba is the best punk band ever.

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            Sure.
            70 years after we fought a war to defeat fascism, it has been resurrected under the guise of American conservative populisim, in no small part because people have forgotten the lesson of WWII.

            I mean, if you’re under the impression that we can somehow defeat fascism for all time then never ever have to worry about it ever again, then you’ll be sadly disappointed. Freedom requires vigilance.

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              I understand how that’s an appealing narrative that helps you make sense of the world and manage your feelings, and in that sense it is a very good narrative. But it’s not reality. The solution you’re so proud of requires a mass purge every three generations, and you think that’s just the way it has to be. Fully buying in to a narrative built around a cosmic conflict between good and evil FFS is buying in to the whole model of fascism. The ruling class WANTS the slaughter, the boom, the crunch, the conflict, and the next slaughter. Every step in the cycle, they ratchet their power and wealth. It’s not an accident that it keeps happening, and the solution isn’t just to play your role on the other side of the stage. It isn’t naive kids playing nazi who are your enemy, you naive kid playing WWII conscript. Fascism never ever occurs in the absence of wealthy capitalists. Shooting their employees doesn’t fucking solve anything.

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            Yet the decades after were the most prosperous in the history of the human race. Sounds like it was worth it.

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              Not so. Not remotely. You know when the other most prosperous times were? After plagues, famines, wars, and other mass deaths. Not the gloat you wish it was.

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                Not the gloat you wish it was

                Except what I said, which was “the most prosperous in the history of the human race” is 100% true. Quality of life for essentially everyone in the entire world went up in the 2nd half of the 20th century way beyond what they were before, even in countries like North Korea and Somalia. Advancements in technology, medicine, and globalization brought wealth to billions, much of which was due to the world order brought about by the allied powers.

                Also, not sure why you think fighting fascism in that war was such a bad thing. Do you really think we’d be better off if the Nazis were not opposed?

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              That’s not how points of logic work. You only need one. If you reject some of them and others remain, you haven’t gotten anywhere except to be a distraction. Didn’t move the discussion anywhere.

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        Yea but it’s fun though. And most of these Nazis are middle class and have most of the world handed to them.

        If you can afford to dress like a Nazi you can afford to not be a fucking Nazi.

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    Bunch of fucking losers.

    I’ll be a lot more concerned if and when they become so comfortable they don’t hide under masks anymore.

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    Hey Canadians,

    You guys need to snuff this flame out now. Whether through serious jail time, or even feeding them to the bears

    Don’t let the weed take root, otherwise you’ll wind up like the U.S.

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      It’s too late now, we already showed them they could march across the whole country and terrorize a city for weeks without repercussions. We need to take more action, absolutely, but I wouldn’t call this one a small or easy flame to take out anymore.

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    The Big Three news outlets in Canada pretty much ignored this story until the Kamloops local paper and social media picked it up. Now they’re all over it, pretending they were there first.

    And they’re all missing the crucial point.

    Second Sons are working very hard to stick to the rule of law, while instilling fear. They’re showing up in groups like this in smaller communities. They’re not in Calgary or Toronto or Vancouver, they’re north of Edmonton, or Orillia or Millarville.

    They show up, dress to intimidate, act to intimidate, but don’t actually threaten. They post overt dogwhistle slogans, “Je me souviens d’un Quebec blanc” or “Indian trucks kill canucks”) which they could plausibly explain away as something else, if forced to stand on trial.

    They’re getting bolder, which means they’re going to try to goad their victims into acting. They’ll obey the RCMP or local police (if the force is sufficient) without hesitation because as long as they keep showing up, as long as they keep scaring people, as long as they are able to avoid consequences for their actions, they’ll be able to hurt some people and recruit others.

    They need to be driven out by the people every time they show their…well not faces, but cowardly masks. They need to be not shot or injured, but maybe detained until the police can unmask and identify them by name.

    We need to publish their names. We need (and I can’t believe I would ever say this) to doxx them - to make them fear for their lives if they keep threatening society.

    We need to break the back of their movement, and the media isn’t helping one goddamn bit.

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      Rachel Gilmore does fantastic journalist coverage and a great job of calling out specific names and people associated with it. She has been threatened quite brazenly for it, but she’s also a badass that continues to do it. We need more Rachels.

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      I hope the RCMP takes this seriously but knowing cops makes me think they’re more apt to protect the fascists from anyone who tries to interfere with their intimidation tactics. I sincerely hope I’m wrong though, this shit is pathetic and needs to stop.

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      There are a few reports coming in from this thread. I’m open to changing my mind on any of the following, but the reason why I haven’t taken action on a few of the reports is as follows:

      I think that it is both valid to question why these people are covering their faces, while also noting that covering your face isn’t “bad” in all cases. The same comment (“if they think they’re right, why hide their faces”) is also used against protestors when they push against the government. Based on the context, I think that’s the point that the other users in this thread wanted to make, but did so poorly. I don’t think those other users are in support of the white nationalists in the post, but rather they picked a bad example.

      The difference between the two situations comes down to why the face is covered and what power that serves. Generally:

      • In rallies such as this, the face covering is for intimidation and group identity, and using anonymity to threaten the targeted minority group. It is also intended to hide the person from their community members, because of shame and embarrassment.
      • In protests, the face covering is to avoid retaliation from the authority figures that the person is protesting against. They rarely hide their thoughts and feelings about the matter from their community members.

      Again, there is some overlap, but that it is why it’s usually more valid to criticize the former and not the latter.

      As for the second argument, I think there is a misunderstanding between ‘human trafficking’ and ‘human smuggling’. Human trafficking is almost always defined as the exploitative practice, where the person being moved is being harmed. Human smuggling can take different forms, but it is not necessarily harming the person being moved. The example of the Underground Railroad and the networks that help refugees and victims escape harm, those would fall under the label of “Human Smuggling”, but the terms are often confused.

      So overall I think the issues in this thread come from users making errors, rather than malice, and so I haven’t taken specific moderation actions. But again, open to changing my mind and taking action if more info is brought to light.

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        Two entirely different functions, one of which requires anonymity by default. What a silly comparison.

        This is a demonstration not an underground resistance movement. They’re supposed to be proudly demonstrating what they believe.

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          The point is that the nobility of the event isn’t what defines being hidden or not.

          You can find other demonstrations against oppressors that require hiding identity from those oppressors.

          Just because you lack the ability to disagree with Nazis on a moral or political basis doesn’t mean empty platitudes should be celebrated.

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              I don’t really care if the people that think the problem with fascist movements is anonymity don’t know what politics are.

              Trafficking people was the only political tool they had to fight against oppression at the time, they weren’t able to lead to a larger change in society so they were reserved to impacting change on an individual level.

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        Just about the falsest of equivalences that ever false-equivalenced. The Underground Railroad was humans trying to survive unspeakable conditions, it formed spontaneously, out of necessity. Nazism is humans trying to bring back those unspeakable conditions, it forms by choice, out of hatred and fear. The consequence of UR members losing their anonymity was torturous death for themselves and their loved ones, the consequences of these shitstains losing their anonymity is, at most, justified social ostracization. If the world knowing what you really believe means good, reasonable people think you’re a piece of shit, maybe it’s time to reflect on those beliefs, eh?

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    And not a one of them looks in the least bit imposing. Do you think they go home at night, look in the mirror, and feel inadequate? I bet they do.

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      Society works because human evolution happens at the rate of learning and communicating new behaviors – exponentially faster and more effective than genetic evolution. The human genome has changed exceptionally little for hundreds of thousands of years, and so called “race” is the fantasy nonsense that its somehow possible to tell the contents of a person’s mind just by the light bouncing of their skin.

      I don’t think its enough to call it stupid, we gotta start attacking the root assumptions that drive the ideology.

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        Sure, but how do you stop a moron from perpetuating their destructive stupidity?

        It’s about their capacity to understand and behave reasonably. We got a long way to go.

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          You start with education. It’s not enough to just negate something (“racism bad”) you gotta replace it with a different idea. Otherwise it just sprouts back up. You would not believe the number of well meaning teenagers who’ve told me eugenics is actually a good idea if we could just do selective breeding programmes without the racism.

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            I do agree it starts with education, but I think we need to tackle more of a fundamental element of teaching people how to be a reasonable human that isn’t so easily jerked around by their base emotions. Otherwise stupid ideas will still reach and resonate with stupid people and the danger of creating a moron is still high.

            It seems like, in a way, you’re suggesting that I’m over-simplifying the issue but I think you’ve misunderstood me, and it’s ironic that I’m suggesting that your idea is the one that doesn’t go far enough.

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        But I like calling them big dumb doo-doo heads.
        Your way requires reading and shit.

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    They have always been angry. They hate minorities, change, acceptance, reason, etc. You can protest corruption, stagnation, crime, illegal immigration, etc without masks, without fear, without intimidation. These people are not healthy or normal for a functional society.

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    Imagine refusing so hard to take responsibility for your own life that you will blame all minorities instead of looking in a fucking mirror.