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In light of the Oregon legislature drafting an anti-doxxing bill to be potentially passed in 2021, here are a few reasons why doxxing is an important tactic for antifa and why –as always- there is not an equivalency with the Far Right’s use of this tactic. https://www.wweek.com/news/state/2020/10/26/oregon-lawmakers-consider-making-it-a-crime-to-dox-someone-and-banning-law-enforcement-from-posting-mugshots/
The motivation for the bill is presumably the Far Right use of doxxing to harass anyone who goes to left protests, especially #BLM. So we’ll point out how the right use of the tactic differs markedly from what we do & how a blunt legal instrument could create harm.
The typical right-wing “doxx” uses easy-access, public info from a left protest to pretend every person swept up in a mass arrest is a member of antifa. The low critical thinking of the intended audience makes it unnecessary to produce any evidence for such claims.
Anyone who is antifa or just has firsthand knowledge about left dynamics knows it is patently absurd to assert that hundreds upon hundreds of ppl are #antifa because they were arrested at a #BLM protest. (TBC: Being pro BLM or being antifa are not shameful, unlike being a Nazi.)
There’s a widespread right-wing fiction that antifa is a massive nefarious cabal sowing chaos and running BLM. So these lousy, malicious “doxx” jobs reinforce their confirmation bias. It’s a circular argument created from disinfo: antifa is huge/BLM because all BLM = antifa.
As usual what the right accuses the left of, they are actually doing. While often the right & press say something like “antifa doxxes those they *believe* to be fascists” RCA actually supplies a very large amount of evidence to back such claims. We don’t publish hunches.
RCA has existed for 13 yrs & every person we have ever doxxed has proven ties to white supremacist &/or fascist organizing. Every fact can be independently confirmed. We actually don’t publish some info we have bc even something 99% confirmed doesn’t meet our high standards.
Our audience is the PDX community so we want to maintain a level of trust that we provide good quality info. The Far Right audience is Atomwaffen Division and similar. Not ppl especially known for impeccable ethics or judgment.
The difference in audience is important & something that the Far Right is well aware of. Nazis are in fact the actual worst. Despite the widespread efforts of the Republican Party & Far Right to push the “both sides” idea, it remains bullshit. Here’s some stats (CW murder):
