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Re:We Live in Fear of the Online Mobs by jacalata on Wednesday August 23, 2017 @02:07AM (#15078911)
Because there are people marching with swastikas? http://www.newstatesman.com/politics/media/2017/08/inventor-...
Re:We Live in Fear of the Online Mobs by erikpukinskis on Wednesday August 23, 2017 @02:12AM (#15078950)
Yes, those people can credibly be labeled Nazis, but I assume roceasta is referring to the wider halo around them, of people also being labeled Nazis. For example, Trump was frequently labeled a Nazi for condeming violence, in his words, "on both sides. On both sides."

Which I found disturbing, but I don't see how it makes him a Nazi.

Re:We Live in Fear of the Online Mobs by gasof on Wednesday August 23, 2017 @03:16AM (#15079270)
Why did you think it was disturbing, and what's your opinion on the theories the violence at Charlottesville was planned?

The police seems to have effected a policy that all but necessitated a violent confrontation, by forcing the alt-right protestors to move through a large hostile crowd of Antifa protestors on the way to their new location, and the police not protecting the alt-right protesters.

There's more strange things that happened that day, but was there any official explanation why the police officers were ordered to use these unusual and harmful tactics?

Re:We Live in Fear of the Online Mobs by hsod on Wednesday August 23, 2017 @12:13PM (#15082712)
"If ten guys think it's OK to hang out with one Nazi, they just became eleven Nazis" -Chris Rock

This is why people call Trump a Nazi.

Re:We Live in Fear of the Online Mobs by observation on Thursday August 24, 2017 @07:23PM (#15094940)
That literally and metaphorically doesn't add up.
Re:We Live in Fear of the Online Mobs by alphaalpha101 on Wednesday August 23, 2017 @02:26AM (#15078994)
It suggests that he sympathises with Nazis, which is close enough to being a Nazi for most people.
Re:We Live in Fear of the Online Mobs by busterarm on Wednesday August 23, 2017 @02:35AM (#15079050)
Yes, because anyone who disagrees with Antifa's tactics should reasonably be assumed to be a Nazi sympathizer... I can't roll my eyes hard enough at this.
Re:We Live in Fear of the Online Mobs by flukus on Wednesday August 23, 2017 @02:40AM (#15079066)
How on earth does it suggest that? If I say "Hitler was evil and Stalin was also evil" am I somehow sympathizing with Hitler?
Re:We Live in Fear of the Online Mobs by gasof on Wednesday August 23, 2017 @02:55AM (#15079150)
Person, AFAICT there was just one guy with a Nazi flag but a lot of picture where made of him.

Portraying the whole alt-right (or the whole right) as Nazi's is inaccurate, offensive and divisive. It just helps them, and it leads to everyone reasonable getting stuck between angry fascist communists and angry fascist Nazi's.

As an aside, white supremacy != Nazism. Nazism includes white supremacy, but adds some other factors like fascism. White supremacy is not all that different from the popular Jewish supremacy movement in Israel. Most peoples want to preserve their cultures and not let themselves be replaced, but it seems like only European welfare states and the U.S. are ever attacked for it.

When did you last hear about the "Islamic supremacy" that is the dominant culture in the Middle East?