A man was fired from his job after a photo of him at the deadly Charlottesville rally

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  1. ibobbrob

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    They are ready and armed and looking for trouble. They came to cause trouble, not to peacefully demonstrate.
    I haven't been exposed to the "hitler" name being used to describe Trump.
     
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    Yes, the sob does, don't he.
     
  3. Daniel Light

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    Nazi apologists are the lowest form of pond scum.
     
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    They're no worse than antifa and communist group apologists. Maybe worse, since they're also hypocrites.
     
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    Actually, it does.
     
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    The Nazi party hasn't been around for quite a few years now, so what are you on about?

    Do you mean white nationalists?
     
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    I wish you were right, really I do!

    But no labor attorney will agree with you.
     
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    at WORK. his 'bad' conduct wasn't at work.
     
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    They don't know what they mean. Else, they mean 'anyone who isn't stridently Progressive'
     
  10. Daniel Light

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    You got to be kidding me. I used to process crime scenes. The Nazi party is damn sure still around and they are involved in murder, drug running, and extortion. I've photographed so many nazi gang tattoos it makes my head spin.
     
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    They? Grab a mirror.
     
  12. Space_Time

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    Here's more:

    https://www.yahoo.com/news/charlottesville-man-apos-outing-nazis-112155622.html


    Charlottesville: Man 'outing Nazis' on Twitter says he will continue despite receiving death threats

    Lucy Pasha-Robinson,The Independent 8 hours ago

    University of Nevada student Peter Cvjetanovic was also named on the Twitter page. A petition calling for the university to expel him has since reached 22,250 signatures: Getty

    The man gaining international attention for outing alleged white supremacists on Twitter has said he will continue his campaign despite receiving death threats in the wake of the Charlottesville violence.


    Logan Smith runs the Yes, You’re Racist Twitter account, which has shared a number of posts since the weekend calling for users to publicly identify members of the Virginia rally.


    But Mr Smith, who works as communications director for Progress NC, has also sparked controversy after incorrectly naming a number of innocent people who were not involved in the white nationalist demonstrations.


    University of Arkansas biomedical engineering professor Kyle Quinn, who runs a laboratory dedicated to wound-healing research, was incorrectly named by the account and was hit with a barrage of online abuse.



    Mr Smith's controversial posts have provoked a mixed reaction. While some support his efforts, others have warned of the dangers of doxxing - the act of sharing someone's personal information, usually a phone number or address, online.


    Mr Smith said he would continue to do what he believes is right despite the furious backlash that has seen death threats lobbied at his family.


    “They are saying they are going to kill me, insulting my wife, insulting my family,” Mr Smith told WRAL.


    “One thing I did was to ask people if they recognised any of these people to just send me the names and public profiles and I will make them famous.


    “These aren’t just random faces in a crowd, these are real people. A lot of times, they are in our communities. They could be your neighbours, your co workers, people you pass in the grocery store and I think it’s really important to put a spotlight on these people.”



    It comes after white nationalist Cole White was dismissed from his job at a Berkeley hot dog restaurant after being identified by Mr Smith's account.


    University of Nevada student Peter Cvjetanovic was also named on the Twitter page. A petition calling for the university to expel him has since reached 22,250 signatures.


    But many from the "alt-right" have also accused Mr Smith of taking images out of context.


    A photo of Joey Salads, a prominent figure of the movement, wearing a nazi armband was widely circulated following the violent protests.


    Mr Smith named him as being in attendance but Mr Salads denied he was at the rally, instead insisting he was on holiday in Jamaica and that the picture had been taken from an "ironic" video filmed five months before.



    Mr Smith started the account during the 2012 presidential election campaign. It has now amassed over 350,000 followers.
     
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    Many white gangs have adopted certain symbols from the nazi party, just as the nazis adopted the swastika.

    Just saying that all of this "nazi" stuff is nonsense. If you want to talk white nationalists or separatists or just plain ol' white racists, then great! But this nazi stuff is pure nonsense and shouldn't be taken seriously. It's now just a generic pejorative that means "not me".
     
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    Sure, but I'm not going to hold it for you.
     
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    They don't look as popular as you claim





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    If you got your way, the opinion of the majority would determine if you we're promoting hatred and the penalty for violating that opinion.
     
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    "general hate" ?

    are the people who put that together 8 years old?
     
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    The southern poverty law center? Yeah, pretty much idiots. Notice all the hate groups they don't list such as antifa and blm. It's just another "I hate whitey!" group of SJWs.
     
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    So if the employer discovered that his secretary is being harassed and threatened by ex- husband, the proper first response is to fire her so that no other employees are put at risk should she be a target for violence?
     
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    there certainly are circumstances not too long ago when hiring me would have been seen as tarnishing ones 'corporate image'. I could be an excellent first rate employee, until I was seen coming out of a gay bar or bathhouse. then clearly I am no longer enhancing the values of my corporate sponsor. We discovered that businesses abuse this, so they wrote laws.

    Once HIV was discovered to be contagious, employers wanted to can employees who tested positive because they were a 'danger'. We discovered that we could not trust employers not to abuse this excuse as well so we reworded the ADA to include HIV status. We keep forgetting that businesses really like to 'disassociate' for a lot of reasons that have nothing to do with work.
     
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    A Nazi is simply a member of a political party that you detest. Employers who want to judge whether a respective employee is violent can do criminal background checks. A violent past is a more reliable method to predict a violent future than party affiliation or attendance at a protest march. Either this employer did not care to do one, or ignored the results are irrelevant when he hired him.
     
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    I am astonished with the adoration of at- will- termination/ 'Right to work' business protection, so many liberals are expressing here. it used to be, that we were a bit skeptical of the potential for abuse, these state laws promoted, in the hands of the same people who fired whistleblowers, minorities, and union organizers' without blinking an eye. Now employers are to be the new enforcers of political decorum in our communities, deciding which protesters are an embarrassment to the community, or which letter to the editor is beyond the 'values mission statement' of the corporation. their job is to scour videos and blogs for 'inappropriate speech' and send the list to Human Resources Dept for a final 'disassociation'.

    Nobody but me left of center is nervous about this becoming a common practice. Nobody but me wants employers to mind their own business and butt out of what happens off the clock when the employee is hourly?
     
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    If you wear or carry a swastika...you're a Nazi.

    End of story
     
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    So do you support the excuse that the firing was justified based on this persons "potential danger" to his employer that's being thrown out there?
     
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    So those who practice Hinduism, Buddhism, and Jainism are Nazi's?
     

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