On Sunday afternoon, a Twitter account called @bigotbasher posted a photo of a man apparently riding Seattle's D line while wearing a swastika armband.
The user wrote that the photo was submitted to them by a third party. @bigotbasher wrote in their tweet that the man in the armband was harassing a black man on the bus. BuzzFeed News has reached out to the person behind the @bigotbasher account for comment.
The picture was picked up by a few anti-fascist–affiliated Twitter accounts that quickly got to work trying to identify the man.
That all led to this post:
The gentleman who punched the neo-Nazi out has not been identified, but apparently he is NOT a member of AntiFa.
I am have a couple of opinions about all of this.
First I don't think that anybody should feel that it is okay to walk around adorned in Nazi paraphernalia. And to verbally harass a minority while wearing said paraphernalia is just looking for trouble.
And secondly I can tell you that if I were 30 years younger I would undoubtedly be applauding these actions and wanting to knock a few Nazi assholes out myself.
However I am NOT in my twenties and I know that as much as this asshole was asking for trouble he was not using physical aggression so did not deserve to be met with physical aggression.
Verbal interactions, however heated, are still only verbal interactions.
When you introduce physical violence, now matter how justified you may feel, you are now in the wrong.
Not only that but this will certainly be used by other Nazis and White Supremacists as a recruiting tool and to prove that the white man is under assault, which will then justify in their minds any violence that they may resort to in future confrontations.
If people are not more careful this all may actually lead to an honest to goodness race war, and I don't see how that benefits anybody.
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