A Twitter Vigilante Is Outing Charlottesville Rally Racists

[Warren DeMontague]

14. Given the history of the 20th century, carrying a flaming torch around a nazi/klan rally carries a

very specific connotation.

Someone who decides to engage in that speech is publicly aligning and allying themselves with genocidal mass murder and generations of unspeakable atrocities. They are making a voluntary statement of affirmative support, for those ideas.

They are saying, in no uncertain terms, "yeah, those people who herded mothers carrying crying newborns into gas chambers.. I'm on their side. The folks who left Emmett Till's body unrecognizable.. they have a point"

On a personal level, the goose-stepping and torch carrying ideology would have shipped me off to a death camp without a second thought. More importantly, to me, it would have done the same to everyone I love most in this world.

This is beyond mere political difference of opinion.

They have the 1st Amendment right to that speech, of course. I believe the genius and power of the 1st Amendment is the extent to which it protects even the worst, most noxious speech from government censorship.

But if you go out and publicly identify yourself as a fucking Nazi, don't be surprised when no one wants to hire you or be associated with you.