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zombie_berkman wrote

only the title says he got expelled. any details

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EVENNN wrote

From the article:

Speaking to babe, David Shelnutt, Gainesville High Principal said: "The student who made the postings is no longer attending GHS."

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zombie_berkman wrote

i mean they could have had their parents withdrawl them

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sudo wrote

If his classmates got on his case enough for him to flee the school, that's still a win in my book.

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EVENNN wrote

The article also say the he "appears to have been booted out", but yeah i guess there's no way of knowing exactly.

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leftous wrote

Haha reading the archive, and the first comment: Delete this, you'll get doxxed

OUT, OUT, OUT them. They're getting scared to show their faces now.

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Whatsthepoint wrote

Nazi supporters said the exact same thing about Jew's and communists in the 1930's...

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Whatsthepoint wrote

Oh I see.... driving him out of his school, away from his friends and probably making him worry about his safety is going to make him become left wing and not entrench his view or drive him towards, or at least leave him vulnerable to recruitment by the extreme right... silly me

Good to know that thanks to this action the left has another trooper on the ground.

Bet his mates and others in the school have been motivated to look into left wing causes and politics too /s

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ziq wrote

who gives a shit if this fash 'looks into leftwing politics'? He tried to get some innocent kid deported you obtuse piece of shit.

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Whatsthepoint wrote

Antifascists are strictly interested in preventing recruiting for fascist causes

Well apparently Emma does.

Also I don't see how he is a fascist. Nothing I have seen would suggest that.

Sure he is a dick for snitching on his schoolmate .. but that doesn't make him a fascist.

Perhaps before you start calling me names again...take a moment to consider the story of the boy who cried wolf...

It's soon going to get to the point where the left calls out a genuine fascist, but will get ignored because people will just assume that it's just a person who doesn't hold left wing / progressive / sjw views

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ziq wrote (edited )

See his hat and the painting of his hero in fascist garb behind him and his attempt to deport someone for not being white.

And stop with the shameless double speak, it won't work here. We're not gullible liberals.

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Ant wrote

the "ok"sign he's doing is a dogwhistle afaik

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buttercupcake wrote

I don't give a shit about making these people left wing. If they have to fucking suffer so they stop terrorizing other people, so be it. I'm not going to coddle a fucking fascist.

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Whatsthepoint wrote

That dox has made a teenage edge lord - and probably his friends and family, shift towards the right and now out of the reach of the centre for some time.

Doxxing anyone under the age of 21 is a-moral.

Apologies for not realising that increasing the number of people who support the right and extreme right was the goal

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leftous wrote (edited )

driving him out of his school, away from his friends ... That dox has made a teenage edge lord - and probably his friends and family...

Wtf.. you realize this guy's goal was literally to destroy this immigrant's life and family right? He even directly mentions in the thread how the immigrant's family are probably all undocumented. This is ethnic cleansing.

Why are you so keen to defend this guy when this is exactly what he was doing to an innocent person?

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Whatsthepoint wrote

So 2 wrongs make a right?

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leftous wrote

You mean to say it's not okay for people to defend themselves when they're attacked?

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Whatsthepoint wrote

you are answering a question with a question.

Do you believe that 2 wrongs make a right?

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leftous wrote (edited )

I don't see how it is wrong to defend yourself, so I think it's an irrelevant question.

Do you think the "right" response is just idly submit when a racist comes to your door with a gun and tells you that they're throwing you out of your home? To me, the very minimal response and defense would be to tell my community and out this guy for being a bigotted asshole.

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Whatsthepoint wrote

It's a fairly simple question of morality. not sure why you are dodging the question, and coming out with all these strawman points.

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ziq wrote (edited )

"Morality" is you crying crocodile tears for a proud fascist, apparently.

Strange how people who crow about their almighty morals are always pieces of shit with no decency whatsoever.

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Whatsthepoint wrote

Here is the rub though. How you treat your enemies is what in truth defines you.

Just as a society can be judged on how it treats it's most disadvantaged members of society, so to can it be judged on how it treats it's enemies.

When considering morality, it's worth considering plato's cave. Otherwise one runs the risk of courting total hypocracy, and with it, lose any and all credebility

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ziq wrote

A privileged fascist gets expelled by his school for trying to ruin a family of immigrant's lives. That's called justice, not cruel and unusual punishment.

I wasn't considering 'morality', btw.

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Whatsthepoint wrote (edited )

Who decides 'that's justice' and why is that justice?

Could you not argue that true justice would only have been done if he had been deported himself? And thus justice remains undelivered?

Could it not also have been argued that, several weeks detention and some re-education would have been justice, and thus the penalty (of being doxxed) was unduly harsh due to media attention?

edit: there is an answer to this, just think it might be more agreeable if we come to it together :-)

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ziq wrote

Who decides 'that's justice' and why is that justice?

I just did. Pay attention.

Could you not argue that true justice would only have been done if he had been deported himself? And thus justice remains undelivered?

That wouldn't be justice, it would be moving.

Could it not also have been argued that, several weeks detention and some re-education would have been justice, and thus the penalty (of being doxxed) was unduly harsh due to media attention?

You thinking that a white kid with every advantage in the world ruining the lives of a poor brown family for being brown should get a time-out is exactly why you are the last person to talk about justice for poc. You're choking on your own privilege.

No, I don't think it was harsh. Him being relocated from one school to another is nothing compared to a family being ousted from their home.

If it were up to me, I'd beat the shit out of the little weasel. All he had to do was relocate to another school. Big whoop.

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Whatsthepoint wrote

You thinking that a white kid with every advantage in the world

He's hardly a toff attending Eton, so I wouldn't go as far as saying he has every advantage in the world, but will accept some of the spirit that your kicking.

I just did

But do you have the authority to declare that justice has been served? how do you represent the views of the 350 million Americans, in his community? Many of a similar political view to him would disagree with your view that justice has been served, (too harsh). Many with a similar political view to you would also disagree that justice has been served (too lenient).

You yourself, seem to provide a contradiction to your view that, Justice has been served, when you say he should have recieved corporal punishment?

(If the people are to form the police and authority on a case by case basis as per anarchacist doctrine, does that mean that an anarchacist society would condone state sanctioned violence and severe beatings as form of punishment? - So that we can measure out this punishment more preciesely to bring justice for a range of different crimes, should we perhaps use some form of impliment? say a whipp? I hear the threat of 100 lashes is quite good at keeping people in line)

So why do you, and 'the mob' have the authority to decide on what is just?

If some right wingers get upset because someone ripped down the statue of someone they like, do they then also have the right to enact mob justice?

how would this be organised? would people have to submit a form denoting their political views and if they match up with the political views of the 'establishement' they would be able to enact violent justice as they saw fit, but if their political views did not match up with the political views of the establishment, then they would be denied justice?

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ziq wrote

But do you have the authority to declare that justice has been served? how do you represent the views of the 350 million Americans, in his community?

Anarchists put no stock in 'authority' so your question is as meaningless to me as your claim to morality. I don't pretend to represent anyone other than myself.

Many of a similar political view to him would disagree with your view that justice has been served, (too harsh).

I couldn't care less. Those people don't speak for me.

You yourself, seem to provide a contradiction to your view that, Justice has been served, when you say he should have recieved corporal punishment?

Him getting punched for being a racist shit isn't 'corporal punishment'. I'm not a state. You hurt people that didn't do anything to warrant it, you open yourself up to direct action.

It's not a contradiction. Justice isn't some kind of definitive 1:1 thing. It comes in different flavors and at different ratios.

does that mean that an anarchacist society would condone state sanctioned violence and severe beatings as form of punishment?

Anarchists don't support states, genius. Our authority ends with our own 2 fists. It's not a 'form of punishment', it's an individual's chosen response to another individual's chosen action. Everyone is responsible for their own actions and the results of those actions.

There is no "anarchist society" in this world, the only anarchy we have is over our own minds. And punching a fascist that's doing real harm to innocent people is as anarchic and just an action as I can imagine.

So why do you, and 'the mob' have the authority to decide on what is just?

I have no authority and never claimed to.

should we perhaps use some form of impliment? say a whipp? I hear the threat of 100 lashes is quite good at keeping people in line)

Again. It's not punishment. It's shutting down a fascist so he stops hurting people less advantaged than him. Fists are all you need.

If some right wingers get upset because someone ripped down the statue of someone they like, do they then also have the right to enact mob justice?

"Rights" aren't real. You comparing fascists getting brown kids deported to poc pulling down a racist statue makes me wish I could punch you, though.

how would this be organised?

Organized violence is better suited to you statists. We'll stick to direct individual action, thanks.

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leftous wrote

What kind of morality suggests it is immoral to defend yourself? I think youre the one strawmanning unless you seriously struggle with reading comprehension.

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Whatsthepoint wrote

If a man commits a wrong by chopping off your arm. is it right for me, while you are in hospital getting your new bionic arm fitted, to chop of his arm?

Unless you (or the people who did the doxxing), are themselves undocumented immigrants who risk deportation at the hands of ICE, then you are not defending youself. You are enacting revenge and retribution on behalf of someone else, thats something completely different.

You say and ask, while dodging my question, is it immoral to defend yourself. But it is not you that is being attacked.

so perhaps your question is, given the context. Is it immoral to take vengance against someone because they commited a wrong against a third party?

My first quiery to that, is to ask what and who gives you the authority to enact vengance? Who decides what is the right amount of vengance?

If a drunk driver speeds, blind drunk and kills your daughter. Am I morally justified in taking vengance out on him on your behalf? Is it up to me to determine that vengance? What if I decide the right thing to do, eye for an eye, is to kill his daughter? As the self appointed vengance taker, is it for me to decide? Or should I kill him? a life for a life?

which leads us nicely back to the original moral question.

Do two wrongs make a right?

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leftous wrote (edited )

Firstly, I am not dodging your question. I am disputing your assumptions. When you assume something (i.e. defending yourself or others is a moral wrong), this is called begging the question and is logically fallacious.

Secondly, your analogy (of chopping arms off) is false because that deals with an act of violence in retribution. Doxxing in this case is not an act of violence nor is it an act of retribution. Making it known who an attacker is can only be called a defense. Think of the way women have been outing sexual predators.

Thirdly, my beliefs are such that I do consider it self-defense and self-preservation when I defend the oppressed. This is because I don't want to be oppressed and attacked myself; permitting others to oppress others enables it against myself since I am offering that power to a group of bigots. Perhaps the best way to understand it is the poem First they came... As an anarchist, I accept no authority beyond my own as an individual.

Fourthly, your second analogy is also false for the same reason as first one. What you're describing is a violent act of retribution and not defense.

So by my count that is 3 logical fallacies and no real argument here. My only hope is that you're a troll.

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Whatsthepoint wrote

Because this is exactly what making it harder and riskier for DRUG DEALERS to organise does.

(capitals just to make edit obvious)

same logic, same outcome. I would submit that all your are doing, is hardneing your enemy. When people come out with opposing views, it should be welcomed, as an oppertunity to set out your case.

I just find the whole, insta branding of people, most of whom are children, increadably reactionary, ugly, spiteful, ignorant, short sighted, and worst of all, deeply counter productive.

It makes the left look petty and authoritarian.

When 'joe average', who doesn't really care about politics, but still has a right to vote, comes to the conclusion that he will have more rights, freedoms and liberties under a right wing government, than under a left wing government... you are not making progress, and your not doing the left any favours

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ziq wrote

Are you a Trot?

Good that most people here couldn't care less about propping up a left-wing state.

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ziq wrote

See the raddle matrix room. Wasn't asking because of anything they said in that comment.

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Whatsthepoint wrote

My political views do not add or detract from the validity of the statement, so I don't see why that matters

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Zaheer wrote

That's not true, the internet wasn't invented yet.

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Xwave wrote

keep tabs on this guy. Make sure every place he ever works at knows about who he is until the end of time.

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Whatsthepoint wrote

Why?

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matches_malone wrote

nazis are dangerous

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Whatsthepoint wrote

What evidence do you have that this person believes that his nation should be strong, and that socialism is the best way to bring about this strength

Cos you learnt what the political stance of actual Nazi's were, before you started calling people that right?

Tho I will say, shouting "national socialist scum" doesn't quite have the same ring to it.

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ziq wrote (edited )

socialism is Nazism

and

you don't know what fascism is

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Whatsthepoint wrote

Stalin was a fascist.

Hitler was a fascist.

King of Saudi Arabia is a fascist.

People of any political persuasion who seek to suppress, harass, intimidate etc. People of differing political persuasions, are also fascists.

Fascism is not linked to right or left.

George Orwell predicted that the next wave of fascism would be seen on the left.... pity some seem determined to prove him right.

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Whatsthepoint wrote

If this is your definition of a fascist, then this makes every single U.S. president a fascist in some fashion (no pun intended),

take a closer look, because I would say your sarcasm is not needed. https://uschs.files.wordpress.com/2011/10/house-speakers-rostrum.jpg

Those are literally fasces, celebrated, in prime position in the house of representitives. The US government IS a fascist government and has been for quite some time.

Fascism is not a political direction, it is a method for promoting a political direction.

It really worries me that this is not understood. The head of the UAF (unite against fascism) in the UK understands this, hes a nice chap, we used to go for pints together and talk about how to put the world to rights and fix broken films together.

Fascism is dangerous, donn't for a second think that it somehow magically stop existing once you get to the centre ground.

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Whatsthepoint wrote

It's not some similarity - they are exactly the same. They are symbols of fascism.

The swastika was / is the sign of a political party that subscribed to fascist political doctrine e.g. violence against people I oppose politically is aye ok

But the symbol of fascism is and has always been the fasces,

I'm a little suprised someone on here is fighting me on the idea that the US governement is a fascist entity that readily opresses people and enacts violence against those it opposes politically.

The UAF engages in the same activities you've declared are 'fascist'.

Much to his chargrin, there is little agreement in the top tier of UAF, about anything. takes em a day and a half just to agree on which pub to meet at.

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Whatsthepoint wrote

you are correct, Fascism is about more than just violence.

According to Lenin and others, Left wing fascism does exist. So perhaps you know more about left wing politics than the father of the Russian revolution, I don't know, while i've read a bunch of his stuff, I've not read any of your books, to make an accurate judgement to that end.

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Whatsthepoint wrote

I'm not apealing to authority.

Just pointing out that your view, that fascism can only exist on the right, is the minority one, is not supported by the general consensus or backed up by fact or historical events.

If your knowledge was so epic and hyou were sure, it would be the simplest thing to explain to this idiot why Fascism can only ever exist on the right...yet, all i read are empty assertions and forum games, this I believe says much about the genuine thought you have put into this quandry.

"I like the left, I hate fascists, thing I like is immune to thing I hate" - thus far, you have demonstrated a thought pattern no deeper than that

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ziq wrote

Fascism is a specific rightwing nationalist ideology. Not every tyrant is a fascist.

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Whatsthepoint wrote

Why is fascism only right wing?

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ziq wrote

Fascism is an open dictatorship of finance capital. Corporatism is a big part of the ideology. The rich owners sit at the top of a rigid hierarchy and the workers serve them. It's literally the polar opposite of any leftist ideology.

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DissidentRage wrote

You are trying to dilute the term fascist so that it's harder to more accurately describe the positions, behaviors and other qualities of a particular group of people. By making it more difficult, you make it easier for fascists to roam free. Your argument is made in bad faith and everyone here knows it.

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ziq wrote

Especially when the guy is posing in front of an outright fascist painting. This user is either a giant troll, or completely unable to admit they are wrong.

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ziq wrote

Dictionary.com

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Whatsthepoint wrote

"a form of political behavior marked by obsessive preoccupation with community decline, humiliation, or victimhood and by compensatory cults of unity, energy, and purity, in which a mass-based party of committed nationalist militants, working in uneasy but effective collaboration with traditional elites, abandons democratic liberties and pursues with redemptive violence and without ethical or legal restraints goals of internal cleansing and external expansion".

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ziq wrote (edited )

dictionary.com:

any ideology or movement inspired by Italian Fascism, such as German National Socialism; any right-wing nationalist ideology or movement with an authoritarian and hierarchical structure that is fundamentally opposed to democracy and liberalism

any ideology, movement, programme, tendency, etc, that may be characterized as right-wing, chauvinist, authoritarian, etc

You:

Fascism is not linked to right or left.

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Whatsthepoint wrote

dictionary.com is trash paid for by advertisers.

I thought I would give you credit by providing a more in depth definition. Oxford Dictionary:

1.1 extreme authoritarian, oppressive, or intolerant views or practices

You can be left wing, you can be radical, you can be anarchic communist, while still alowing other people to express their views, without punishing them

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Whatsthepoint wrote

The original definition I gave was:

"a form of political behavior marked by obsessive preoccupation with community decline, humiliation, or victimhood and by compensatory cults of unity, energy, and purity, in which a mass-based party of committed nationalist militants, working in uneasy but effective collaboration with traditional elites, abandons democratic liberties and pursues with redemptive violence and without ethical or legal restraints goals of internal cleansing and external expansion".

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ntm wrote

We should be cautious of babe. It's an offshoot of Rupert Murdoch's the Tab, and writers only get paid if they get past a threshold of pageviews.

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