Accused white supremacist leaves teaching position, says 'witch hunt' went too far

[turbinetree]

Is the public campaign to out white supremacists having a broader effect?

CASEY MICHEL JUL 12, 2018, 12:11 PM

One morning last April, Cole Jones woke up, his phone buzzing. Text messages and voicemails all told him the same thing: Don’t come to school today.

Jones, a Ph.D. student at the University of Houston’s Earth and Atmospheric Sciences Department, took their advice, staying away from campus. And it was probably for the best, seeing as the school grounds had been plastered overnight with a series of flyers from the Houston-based “Screwston Antifascist Committee,” accusing Jones of being a white supremacist.

“Cole is deeply networked into Neo Nazi social circles online and in real life,” the flyers read. “This person’s presence on our campus is a danger to every person he may encounter who is not a straight white man, or who does not align with his racist, misogynist ideology.”

The flyers, with photos of Jones culled from his social media accounts and elsewhere, went on to list the names of Jones’ girlfriend, mother, and grandmother — and pointed out that Jones, as he confirmed to ThinkProgress, had been working as a teacher’s assistant at UH.

https://thinkprogress.org/does-getting-white-supremacists-fired-from-their-jobs-change-anything-3646fc9d0141/

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Jones disavowed some of Patriot Front’s more extreme stances. (“I bought a couple of the shirts on Amazon, mainly just because I liked the shirts,” he told ThinkProgress.) Nevertheless, he was still working as a teaching assistant during the same period that he was showing up in pictures with a Patriot Front cohort. And it’s only thanks to the publicity that Jones has decided to stop working as a TA — a decision he said he made on his own.

“I decided just to step down for next semester,” he said. “If I really did have hate in my heart, this experience would have nurtured
it.”

[AlexSFCA]

1. zero tolerance for white supremacists, how about that

they should be thankful we don’t lock up these nazis in jails even though they deserve it.

[turbinetree]

2. Yepper, spot on..........................

[blogslut]

3. Hey, Cole!

Dime con quién andas y te diré quién eres.

[turbinetree]

4. Good one....................nice ................

[radius777]

5. Why antifascist activism

is necessary because they're willing to take the risk in infiltrating and exposing these hate groups.

Regular liberal activism doesn't work against fascists, only harder tactics do.

from the article:
“Only over the course of the past year or so, the alt-right as a whole has been confronted in a significant way with that possibility [of being outed]… There were a lot more alt-right people coming out for public events before Charlottesville as opposed to after Charlottesville,” Pitcavage said. “I don’t want to make too much of that… but certainly in terms of the alt-right organizing big things, being able to get those kinds of numbers,” that time has passed.

A member of “Screwston Antifa” who spoke with ThinkProgress agreed with the assessment. “I think one important thing is we definitely focus more on people who are on the fringes of this stuff, who are more in mainstream society, like who are on campus,” said the member, who agreed to comment on the condition of anonymity. “We focus on those people more than the leader in these groups because it’s a way to dissuade potential members, or people who are dabbling in it, people who might show up just to check it out.”

[Hassin Bin Sober]

6. Poor widdle Nazi. He only liked the t-shirt. And maybe the tattoo. Oh and the masks.

“If I really did have hate in my heart, this experience would have nurtured”

Well then you are justified, eh?

I have a feeling watching gays, and black folks and Jews live their lives is what nurtured your hate.

Good luck finding a job.

[dalton99a]

7. They should be identified as a public service

"moderate-leaning right-wingers" my ass