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Tom Tanuki - Coordinated booing at the Anzac Day Dawn Service [insight into the neo-Nazi chatrooms] (youtube.com)
submitted 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) by eureka@aussie.zone to c/australia@aussie.zone
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Some choice quotes:

[7:26, from an ex-NSN neo-Nazi in the March for Australia recap voice chat] "What surprised me is like, how handsy people got. I had someone pushing me in the back. I had another guy [...] threatening to punch my friend's teeth in."

Anecdotally, some had veterans grabbing their mouths to shut them up. Many people completely unfamiliar with the group reported that it was obvious they'd divided into tiny clusters of 4 spread in the crowd to avoid being shut down easily.

[9:00, same chatroom] "The lesson I've taken is we gotta enforce the 1-metre rule very heavily next time" [a self-defense guidance of keeping 1 metre distance from opponents in a fight, in this context their opponents are the crowd of ANZAC veterans and commemorators]

They seem surprised that doing this stunt is alienating them from many nationalists and might push the Overton window away from them.

We also get some prime crying from a Perth idiot pretending they didn't come in a co-ordinated group to desecrate a commemoration day, ranting to their phone about being moved along by cops. The booing at Perth ended up being clearly only one or two quiet Nazis as a result.

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[โ€“] eureka@aussie.zone 0 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

I feel like all the reporting on this is just giving them the publicity they want.

Speaking generally about the mainstream reporting, sure. These stunts, as per their own manuals, are done to use the mainstream media to advertise and legitimise themselves.

But that doesn't apply to the attached video. I mean no disrespect with this question, but did you watch it? And if so, how do you think it affects these groups?

There are important reasons to report on these groups and their stunts, and there are ethical ways to do it considerately and constructively: https://thewhiterosesociety.writeas.com/9-principles-for-journalists-reporting-on-neo-nazis

[โ€“] DavidDoesLemmy@aussie.zone 0 points 1 week ago

You're right. I didn't watch the video. It's just my general stance on these people.