Doxxing White Supremacists Is Making Them Terrified

vastderp:

roachpatrol:

vaspider:

kittykat8311:

republicansareahategroup:

GOOD

DESTROY THEIR LIVES

Let me be clear, as much as I want to just respond CRY MORE, BABIES I object to the use of the word ‘doxxing’ in this case.

I have BEEN doxxed. I have been stalked online. I have had people go through my journals and my pictures to try to identify me for malicious purposes. I have had people search me on court websites to try to find the charges I filed against an ex when he stole from me, for the purposes of trying to humiliate me about an online roleplaying game. (No, really.) I’ve had people try to match up pictures of the flowers outside my synagogue and the building in the background with pictures of synagogues in the Philly area to try to fuck with my life.

So I know the kind of gut-clenching, cold down the back of your neck, hands-shaking fear that comes with being doxxed. I do. It’s happened to me more than once. It will probably happen to me again, because I’m a loud fat queer femme Jewish disabled activist, and boy does that piss people off.

But let me be clear: I was existing as a person that someone else didn’t like in those cases. I was existing as queer, I was existing as ‘someone I don’t like on a game.’ I was not showing up in public, carrying a torch, and advocating for the massacre of millions of people. When you show up in public carrying a torch, you are not being doxxed.

You are being IDENTIFIED.

i feel like this articulates the difference between doxxing, which is a violation of someone’s online privacy, and identification, which is holding citizens accountable for their public actions. i don’t think doxxing is ever ‘okay so long as you do it to bad guys’, no matter how bad you think those guys are. you have to hold on to your principles even when you’re really, really mad. 

but i am all for assholes who show up in public waving torches and advocating genocide without even putting on a fucking mask having to face some fucking consequences when someone says ‘hey, that’s richard from accounting’. 

I approve of knowing where all the people who publicly advocate for murder are. Just please good sweet god make sure you have the right klansman because if you don’t protect the weak even from yourself you are an asshole

Doxxing White Supremacists Is Making Them Terrified