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Re:GitHub is facing employee backlash by jakelazaroff on Tuesday January 12, 2021 @03:03PM (#25752664)
The best guess on Wikipedia for attendance at the protest seems to be around 30,000. An upper bound of 0.1% is 30 people.

In addition to the literal neo-Nazis in attendance, there were also plenty of groups — such as Proud Boys — that may not be technically neo-Nazis themselves, but are definitely Nazi adjacent; I don't think it's a particular stretch to put them under the Nazi umbrella.

Given all that, 30 seems like a real lowball.

Re:GitHub is facing employee backlash by akarma on Tuesday January 12, 2021 @03:19PM (#25752905)
So, I absolutely do not believe we should go making a "Nazi umbrella" and throwing every anti-socialist, western chauvinist, Republican, etc. into it.

With that said, I agree 30 may seem like a lowball and it possibly is, but I've seen so many cases of people who went to the initial protest being doxed, and it's been some random kind woman from the Bay Area, some random woman who works at a hospital in Massachusetts, and so on. They very much just appear to be regular people brainwashed by Trump and his cronies.

Re:GitHub is facing employee backlash by jakelazaroff on Tuesday January 12, 2021 @03:44PM (#25753327)
Yes, the word is overused, and I wouldn't apply it to every Republican, anti-socialist, etc. But on the other hand — if Proud Boys say they’re not Nazis, but keep showing up alongside Atomwaffen and Identity Evropa, and some of their members wear 6MWE shirts [1]… at some point, we just have to be like "okay, these people are Nazis."

Because it's a sliding scale, right? And just because there's no single objective line doesn't mean that we have to give up drawing a line entirely.

I'm not giving an opinion on doxxing random people at the protest who weren't involved in the terrorist attack. I'm just saying that it's fair to see the crowd that showed up and say "stay safe homies, Nazis are about." It turned out to be prescient.

[1] https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/proud-boy-6mwe/