Hes the Raleigh man behind the Twitter account outing racists and 'I'm not going away'

[babylonsister]

http://www.newsobserver.com/news/local/article167142317.html

He’s the Raleigh man behind the Twitter account outing racists – and ‘I’m not going away’

By Brooke Cain

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August 14, 2017 3:52 PM
RALEIGH


The Raleigh man behind the viral Twitter account @YesYoureRacist said on Monday that since publishing photos of torch-carrying white supremacist protestors Saturday in Charlottesville, he has received remarkable support – but also death threats.

Logan Smith, who works as the communications director for Progress NC Action, says the account had about 65,000 followers Saturday morning. On Monday afternoon, it had topped 307,000 and was climbing.

“I have been receiving death threats for the past 20 hours or so,” Smith said in a phone interview. “They have been threatening my family, too. The overall response of course has been 99 percent positive, but there’s always that extremely small but extremely loud and extremely angry minority that bites back.”

Smith said the threats seem to come from followers of the white supremacist website Stormfront, from neo-Nazis and from alt-right groups.

“They’re mostly anonymous Twitter accounts with three followers that only tweet non-stop hate,” he said. “But there’s a lot of them – and they are mad.”

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The attention from @YesYoureRacist got one man disowned by his family and one man fired from his job at a hot dog restaurant in California.

[He was seen marching in Charlottesville with white supremacists. Now he’s fired.]

“I’m not trying to get anybody fired,” Smith said. “I’m not contacting anybody’s employers. But you know, if someone goes to a white supremacists’ rally and their employer sees them, then that’s their prerogative – and that’s something they probably should have thought about.”

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[Raster]

1. I'm sure they are mad, Sir... you've helped rip their cyber-hoods off...

...and shown their real faces and names. The racist vermin don't like to have their name put with their face.

GOOD JOB!

[classykaren]

2. I am sure many more will be fired

[Vetteguy]

3. Twitter seems to enjoy the drama

of these hate merchants and Russian Trolls.

[calimary]

7. Welcome to DU, Vetteguy!

Drama or no, I hope Twitter and other outlets STOP giving these assholes a forum.

Remember, the First Amendment does NOT sanction or cover OR excuse your crying "FIRE!" in a crowded theater.

[Vetteguy]

23. Thank you!

But at this point Twitter is just enabling attacks on Democracies around the world for clicks and profit.

[bora13]

4. how one can be

a human on this earth and be presented with real video evidence
of nazi destruction and call it fake?

the world may never know.

[iluvtennis]

8. Same way one could be on tape saying "When you're a "star" they let you do anything...

like grab em by the pussy."

Someone who was accused of sexual abuse by over a dozen women, so with written and photographic evidence.

Someone seen on-tape denigrating the disabled.

Someone on tape degraded a gold start dad and mom.

Humpty Dumpty called it all "Fake News".

[azureblue]

27. I get it!

They want to be racists, but they don't want the world to know it. They want to be racists but they don't want to bear the consequences - they think they can be racists and everyone will put up with them. Guess what.............

[Honeycombe8]

5. I hope he watches his back. But it's good that people know in the future that this can happen.

If you think you might get fired for going to a "rally," maybe it's not a good idea to go.

[blm]

6. Been part of the Progress NC group for some time now. Proud of the work.

There are many of us in NC and we will not be silenced.

[MontanaMama]

9. You, Logan Smith,

are a true patriot. Thank you for your bravery.

[ebbie15644]

10. Please be careful

[McCamy Taylor]

11. No one made them take off the white hoods.

[lostnfound]

24. Actually it's illegal to wear masks etc. in Virginia

http://law.lis.virginia.gov/vacode/title18.2/chapter9/section18.2-422/

[mcar]

12. A brave man

[HopeAgain]

13. Why are they mad?

Are they ashamed of being racist pigs? I mean if they dont want to be associated with these people, why were they there?

[Duppers]

25. Exactly!

[PatrickforO]

14. I'm not surprised at the hatred. Still, when these hate-filled maggots are exposed to the bright

light of day, maybe they will crawl back under the rocks where they belong.

[Jarqui]

15. If they were not up to no good,

they wouldn't have a problem with being outed.

Even they know what they are doing is not going to be perceived well widely.

That's why these cowards often have to carry on wearing hoods or operating in the shadows.

Keep shining the bright lights on these ignoramuses. Like cockroaches, they'll have no choice but to run for cover. Hopefully, in their haste, their hatred gets left behind and exterminated.

[haveahart]

16. Is time for some threats to be turned on those outed? I am sick of them getting to intimidate

solid American citizens who embrace our diversity and our freedom.

[RogerM]

17. Amateur Sleuths Aim to Identify Charlottesville Marchers, but Sometimes Misfire

https://mobile.nytimes.com/2017/08/14/us/charlottesville-doxxing.html?referer=https://t.co/9yNi8PbguK?amp=1

After a day of work at the Engineering Research Center at the University of Arkansas, Kyle Quinn had a pleasant Friday night in Bentonville with his wife and a colleague. They explored an art exhibition at the Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art and dined at an upscale restaurant.

Then on Saturday, he discovered that social media sleuths had incorrectly identified him as a participant in a white nationalist rally some 1,100 miles away in Charlottesville, Va. Overnight, thousands of strangers across the country had been working together to share photographs of the men bearing Tiki torches on the University of Virginia campus. They wanted to name and shame them to their employers, friends and neighbors. In a few cases, they succeeded.

But Mr. Quinn’s experience showed the risks.

A man at the rally had been photographed wearing an “Arkansas Engineering” shirt, and the amateur investigators found a photo of Mr. Quinn that looked somewhat similar. They were both bearded and had similar builds.

By internet frenzy standards, that was proof enough.

[Blue_true]

22. So are you saying do nothing?

Innocent people that are mis-identified will have solid alibis. The rewards of outing bastards is well worth the drawbacks.

[Jake Stern]

26. It's worth it if an innocent person gets harassed, fired or even driven from his home?

Wow.

[mythology]

29. Probably easier to say if you aren't the one being harassed

[Lee-Lee]

31. No, but have your shit in order when you act

Don't go off half cocked with nothing more to collaborate you claim than a photo that kinda resembles a person.

It's fine to name names if you have done you homework and have your shit in order and know with a high level or certainty you are right. But that's not what has been happening in every case here.

A little bit of work to verify before running off half cocked doesn't take much time or effort, and it's better to get it right a day later than rush in and be wrong right away.

[Scruffy1]

18. I'm not holding my breath for Sessions to get on this.

Meanwhile, back at the ranch, we are hoping we have his back.

[L. Coyote]

19. Sounds like someone is using bots to threaten him.

ALL HANDS --- We need to identify this man TODAY.

The man on the right in this photo:


He's the guy with the white tee-shirt in this photo:

Link to tweet

[dalton99a]

21. +1

[dalton99a]

20. Terrorists must be exposed. Give them the publicity they seek and deserve.

[zentrum]

28. Not surprising that outing

...his name and location puts him in terrible jeopardy. Our side needs to be a lot more wiley than this. How protect him?

[Lee-Lee]

30. Unfortunately he's also gotten some wrong and really screwed people's lives up

As noted above.

And if those people decide to they will probably be able to sue the shit out of him and likely Progress NC Action and bankrupt them both.

As I said in my other post on this, it's great to expose people but you damm sure better have your shit in order before you go naming names. If he and the organization get sued a lot of time and money that could have been put to much better use will go out of the good fight.