This video covers:
- Why the NSN nazi org typically resort to cowardly flash-mobbing at 3:30am when no-one is around
- What they aim to achieve through flash mobs, and in their own words, the effect they want to have in media
- How the way we share news of these events can promote their group (increasing its funding and its ability to form a legal political party)
- Exclusive footage of those nazis getting beaten up
Since this is an important topic, especially for social media users, please share this video to other communities!
(I was late to watch and share so that Anti-Racism Action event mentioned at the very end has already happened.)
I’m conflicted that he seems to say that talking or sharing about these organisations helps them recruit, while he’s doing exactly that?
Have we done the same by sharing it?
Wouldn’t he have practiced what he preached if he didn’t constantly name a specific group? Surely, you could anonymize/genericize it to get the message across.
One of the important points is people sharing the uncensored message. This is a cut-and-dry example of unintentional promotion. For example, I tried looking up the initial news on /r/Melbourne and the mod team wisely said something like “The Guardian has chosen not to share the image in their article and we will do the same”, locking the thread so that no accounts, whether sincere curious people or Nazi astroturfers, can say " what did it say", “it said X, how fucked up”, “omg how can this happen?”. That’s an example of the no platform tactics , which given the nazis’ goals, is an effective tactic in the arsenal.
On the other hand, you’re right that Tanuki is raising awareness of the event. I think their perspective is, if they have a platform, it’s best to make crystal clear how pathetic these people are behind their anonymity. (And I’m not saying that as a blind claim, these people have had their own members embezzle them, get repeatedly infiltrated by current affairs shows, have major financial donors lose their jobs and half their members and promoters are headed to the camps one train after the socialists and Jewish). Their recruiting effort relies on trying to show they’re better than all those failed neo-Nazi groups like Patriot Front and Atomwaffen, so we if we must talk about them (ignorance doesn’t work), we should make sure to laugh at them too, show we have a community willing to fight these alienated tourist flash mobbers.
And I think you raise an excellent point about unnecessarily naming a specific group, pointing potential recruits towards them more easily and making it a more common name to hear. I would be guilty of that too.
I don’t think AZ users/posters or the video creator should feel conflicted. There wasn’t, and isn’t any sensationalism in what i see here.
And i think thats the key issue that groups like this play on, amp up the drama as much as possible for the cameras and paper shuffling anchors.
The video’s creator doesn’t sensationalise the events spoken about, or make particular hero’s out of the SHARPs (what is that?).
The only thing he says about them specifically is we should listen to them as people ‘who have actually stared down’ these shitheads. Not exactly the kind of hyperbole you might find with other media, even ABC sensationalises this stuff rather more than giving a sober account of these events.
