Just spotted a "Fuck Antifa" sticker on a streetlight. Wanted to put an antifa sticker over it, but there was a young family behind me on the pavement so I wanted to let them pass first.
Just as they passed me and the pole, the dad stopped and pulled off the sticker himself. He taught his daughter how to safely remove nazi stickers.
I laughed and told them that I was just waiting for them to pass to put my own on top. Small funny moment of solidarity.
@stehgeiger @lianna
Exactly. Avoid using your fingers directly.
Window scrapers work well and they can be pretty cheap. Goo gone is also useful to help with stubborn stickers.
And of course, like the original post mentioned, you can just slap your own sticker on top of it.
@lianna @tinker Huh. And here I have this on the back of our car.
I was out in the countryside of Maryland a few weeks ago, having stopped for lunch in a drive-thru parking lot. Had a fellow walk up to my car while I was inside and ask me what the sticker was about.
I told him about Elon and the Republican convention. I told him that all of those veterans who fought in the World War II deserve more respect than to allow Nazis to take root here. He mumbled something and walked away.
Not too much of a stretch to guess who he voted for.
Nazi-stickers tend to have razor blades behind them, making it unsafe to use naked fingers.
(Consider usingkeys, coins, etc. as a tool.)
@stehgeiger@hessen.social @lianna@micro.webgarden.click Exactly. Avoid using your fingers directly. Window scrapers work well and they can be pretty cheap. Goo gone is also useful to help with stubborn stickers. And of course, like the original post mentioned, you can just slap your own sticker on top of it.
Good work. Good community building exercise.
I have begun carrying cute rainbow stickers and flags in case I come across stickers I canβt easily remove.
@lianna I'd have boosted if there was a cw for politics or antifascism
love the post
I can understand cw:ing things that bring people down, but surely community opposing discrimination, and teaching the next generation is -- or should be --both uplifting and relatively apolitical?
Removing racist stickers is about keeping things out of Overton window.
If you're that opposed to antifacism that you don't want even hear about sticker removal, you should imho have the keywords on the filter list.
Edit: and it's not like op makes it difficult: there's a lot of tags!
I now carry a whole bunch of different stickers, in different sizes for just this kind of thing. Way to go, Dad, though. And you!
@czarbucks @lianna
Someone posted about a Nazi group putting up a sign near us, asking what to do. Someone else told them how to remove it, a third person said they were going to take it down, then posted a photo of the sign when they got there, which had been painted over, presumably by a fourth person whoβd seen it.
It takes a community! β€οΈ
That's just wonderful! I follow someone here or on Bluesky who said if anyone saw one of these in Asheville and was worried about taking it down to just let him know, and he'd paint over it.
So nice to see this.
@lianna I was just hoping... π
Can't we all unite over fucking with Facists?
Reminds me of when I would walk my dog during the pandemic carrying a paint scraper. Those "White Rose" stickers spreading FUD were popping up all over my neighbourhood and i wanted them gone.
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