lemm.ee

-5 points

1 year ago

I don’t think they’re opinion is valuable for the information it disseminates, only for the source it identifies. That has value, because then if that Nazi has anything to lose, that opinion can be used to unravel that source’s life, aka a consequence beyond “hey…shut up.”

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underisk@lemmy.ml

5 points

1 year ago

Yeah dude, the consequences only come if society actively shuns them for publicly saying Nazi shit. That’s the whole point! You can’t get someone fired for heiling hitler if people don’t think that’s something that should be punished!

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-2 points

1 year ago

No, you want to actively stop them before they’ve given their complete speech with every gruesome atrocity.

I want that shit on camera. Please, keep talking, do go on, and please belabor specifics and ultimate goals of your hate.

Difference. The more they say, the less they can bullshit out of it. You didn’t recite the first chapter of Mein Kampf from memory because you were having a bad day.

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underisk@lemmy.ml

5 points

1 year ago

What difference? Is laying out a complete plan for rendering the Jews into ash going to make their public shaming more effective somehow? Are they gonna get extra fired, double canceled?

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-2 points

1 year ago

The difference is you not letting them bury themselves with their words as much as humanly possible. You think “I hate the Jews” is sufficient, I think that can be wriggled out of more easily than letting them do their 2 hour diatribe of how much they hate them and what temperature oil they’d use to boil them alive.

“Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.”

-Napoleon Bonaparte

“I was saying juice! I hate juice boss you gotta believe me!”

When someone wants to divulge their evil plan, fucking let them. Hell, they might start talking about future plans which means that Nazi might not be society’s problem anymore if you’re recording.

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underisk@lemmy.ml

5 points

1 year ago

But the consequences are the same. The grave was already deep enough to bury them in. Letting them convince a bunch of impressionable rubes that the soil is soft and the solution to everything is buried in it is the mistake, not shoving in the dirt when they’ve dug deep enough.

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-1 points

1 year ago

The consequences are not necessarily the same. You add deniability cutting them short. You limit any long term plans, discussion of numbers or organization, their method of recruitment at the end, etc. All of which could be useful in social consequences and more importantly law enforcement tracking, which they thankfully do when it comes to white nationalists.

Making a Nazi’s position as public as possible makes it harder for that nazi to move, and measures how much resource should be committed to tracking them. It’s the difference between “I hate x” and “I hate x, if you’re interested we meet at 6 at the church rec center on tuesday!”

Now you have a phone call to make, with video, that a white nationalist group is meeting at the church at 6 on tuesday. To the FBI tip line, and to local news which raises the local consciousness as a problem.

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