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White Nationalists # nazis showed up in Kamloops today to protest ahead of Truth and Reconciliation Day (friendica.ca)
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White Nationalists #nazis showed up in Kamloops today to protest ahead of Truth and Reconciliation Day.

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[+] -27 points 1 month ago (21 children)

The underground railroad needed anonymity.

I don't agree with your argument.

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  • [–] 27 points 1 month ago* (1 child)

    Two entirely different functions, one of which requires anonymity by default. What a silly comparison.

    This is a demonstration not an underground resistance movement. They're supposed to be proudly demonstrating what they believe.

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  • [+] -13 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

    The point is that the nobility of the event isn't what defines being hidden or not.

    You can find other demonstrations against oppressors that require hiding identity from those oppressors.

    Just because you lack the ability to disagree with Nazis on a moral or political basis doesn't mean empty platitudes should be celebrated.

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  • [–] 16 points 1 month ago (15 children)

    The Underground Railroad wasn’t in the business of swaying politics

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  • [+] -12 points 1 month ago (14 children)

    It absolutely was about fighting a political fight.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 month ago (13 children)

    This is the hill you die on? Really?

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  • [–] -4 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (12 children)

    I don't really care if the people that think the problem with fascist movements is anonymity don't know what politics are.

    Trafficking people was the only political tool they had to fight against oppression at the time, they weren't able to lead to a larger change in society so they were reserved to impacting change on an individual level.

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  • [–] 6 points 1 month ago (11 children)

    Trafficking people

    Are you still talking about the underground railroad?

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  • [–] -3 points 1 month ago (3 children)

    Given that's what you were replying to, what else do you think I would be talking about?

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  • [–] -4 points 1 month ago (6 children)

    the underground railroad was moving people illegally, sure the people consented but so do quite a few human trafficking victims (intially).

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  • [–] 3 points 1 month ago (3 children)

    By any definition of human trafficking, keeping slaves would qualify as that, freeing slaves would not.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 month ago (1 child)

    Just about the falsest of equivalences that ever false-equivalenced. The Underground Railroad was humans trying to survive unspeakable conditions, it formed spontaneously, out of necessity. Nazism is humans trying to bring back those unspeakable conditions, it forms by choice, out of hatred and fear. The consequence of UR members losing their anonymity was torturous death for themselves and their loved ones, the consequences of these shitstains losing their anonymity is, at most, justified social ostracization. If the world knowing what you really believe means good, reasonable people think you're a piece of shit, maybe it's time to reflect on those beliefs, eh?

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