The white supremacist group Patriot Front is suing a left-wing activist for allegedly infiltrating the group and revealing the identities of members, USA Today reported. The lawsuit says the alleged “doxxings” cost the members their jobs and personal relationships. As USA Today points out, Patriot F…
Which is why this makes me a bit uneasy
Sure, when it happens to Nazis, fuck em, they’re scum
But like…I’ll bet some of you reading are Communists. There’s a lot of employers who would fire you for affiliating with communist groups. Or pro-union groups.
I don’t like the precedent of ruining someone’s life because it can easily be turned around on you.
When you take a job, you have a good idea of what behavior can get you fired. You can get fired most places just because. I think it’s good to make it clear joining a Nazi club is one of those behaviors that’s going to get you fired. All this pussyfooting is encouraging them from these nobodies so the way up to the last president.
Okay but talking about a union is another type of behavior that can get you fired.
I’m just saying it’s a can of worms and it will be difficult to draw the line at Nazis alone
You open a can of maggots when you treat nazis with kid gloves. Personally, I don’t care about the argument “oh it could happen to us if we’re meanies to nazis!”
I agree it’s wrong to fire people for organizing a union, but that line doesn’t exist to begin with. Companies can and will continue to do that. I don’t agree with it, but that’s the way it currently is. I’m not sure if it’s been established you’re not allowed to be a Nazi outside of your typical “behavior not becoming of an XYZcorp employee” that they can use to legally fire you for anything they’re want I’m just saying we should make it clear that this specific behavior, joining Nazi clubs, is clearly a valid offense.
Again, 100 percent in agreement with you, but it’s not such a slippery slope issue when employees were never anywhere near the top of that slope to begin with, so we may as well hammer it home when we’ve identified a specific legal but unacceptable behavior.
Point of fact: it’s generally illegal to fire someone for attempting to organize a union. That’s why companies that are getting rid of union organizers and sympathizers almost always have some other pretext. Even doing things like cutting your hours, or putting you on unpleasant shifts, can be “constructive dismissal”.
While I understand what you’re saying I think that there’s something different about Nazis and people that actively want to commit genocide; their very existence is so antithetical to a liberal democracy that acting in ways that would normally be outside of the bounds of decent behaviour is justifiable.