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scholvin:

As pleasing as it is to see Richard Spencer get hit in the face over and over and over on my dash tonight, he actually suffered a far more humiliating and important defeat earlier this week.

Remember how he called for an armed march against the tiny Jewish community in his hometown of Whitefish, Montana for last Monday? Yeah. About that:

The rabbi’s voice began to break. For several seconds, the park was silent, save for the sound of Roston sniffling. “You let us know that we are not alone,” she finally said. “You let us know that our community, that our amazing magnificent town of Whitefish, is not only protected by great, divinely formed mountains of earth — this town is protected by a wall of humanity that refuses to be quiet or sit still in the face of bigotry, racism, sexism, homophobia or anti-Semitism.”

TL;DR – the entire town rallied around their neighbors. They got unequivocal, strong, bipartisan support from state officials. Reinforcements arrived from around the country. And the nazis fucking bailed. They never even showed up.

That article needs editing, but it’s worth a scan for the lessons in it. The one I’m holding onto is that we can never give these clowns power they don’t actually have, especially the nameless online assbags. We can’t cede an inch. If we care about each other, and just show up, they will lose every. fucking. time.

How the town of Whitefish defeated its neo-Nazi trolls — and became a national model of resistance

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the-movemnt:

White supremacists target Jewish community of Whitefish, Montana

White supremacists across the country have focused their attention on Whitefish, Montana, because of neo-Nazi Richard Spencer.

Spencer’s parents Rand and Sherry Spencer live in Whitefish.

Earlier this month, the town took a firm stance against Spencer’s rhetoric.

A city council meeting included the reading of a recently approved proclamation that “repudiates the ideas and ideology of the founder of the so-called alt-right as a direct affront to the community’s core values.”

An activist in the town called for a boycott and protest of the businesses in a building owned by Sherry Spencer.

In response, Andrew Anglin wrote an article for The Daily Stormer in which he targets Jewish Whitefish residents, exposing their contact information.

The article, entitled “Jews Targeting Richard Spencer’s Mother for Harassment and Exortion. TAKE ACTION!” uses anti-Jewish slurs and describes the Jewish people as “a vicious, evil race of hate-filled psychopaths.“

Anglin calls on supporters to “hit [the named targets] up,” asking “Are y’all ready for an old-fashioned troll storm?“

Targeted individuals and human rights organizations, as well as city council members, have received death threats since the article was published. Local businesses in support of human rights have also been harassed. Read more

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Don’t forget they also released the name and social media information of a Jewish 7th grader who is a child of an activist. These monsters aren’t opposed to coming after our children.

They have always been okay with coming for Jewish children because to then Jews an infestation and thus not children or human.

PLEASE PROTECT MY PEOPLE PLEASE ACT

OK, so, someone obviously needs to introduce anti-doxxing legislation. I mean it’s time. The law would have to be written very narrowly to avoid abuse, but it could be. I know we’re going to be playing defense for the next 4 years but this really should be introduced at the federal level by the Democrats even if it never passes. There is no form of legitimate protest that requires you to doxx an individual. But that’s for the long term.

In the short term, I might suggest that concerned netizens make a donation to Love Lives Here, which has been working in the Whitefish area since, it appears, 2014, and probably deserves our support anyway.