Researcher account @RuthlessWe was suspended from Twitter, only a few days after getting locked out for posting a thread critical of Elon's suspensions of journalists and antifascists. (Note: the thread did not violate TOS).

You can follow them here at: @RuthlessWe

To all the white nationalists or fascists watching our media: 2023 is a great year to stop. In the long term, there is absolutely no downside to not being a fascist! Every year at the beginning of the year we republish this conditional amnesty offer for those trying to leave the movement.

We've been watching you long enough to know very well that your movement is bursting with grifters, backstabbers, federal informants, pedophiles, and just generally terrible people. Do you really want to spend the rest of your life among them, stewing in pointless paranoia, hate, and resentment?

https://atlantaantifa.org/2023/01/08/change-your-life-for-the-better-in-2023-leave-the-white-nationalist-movement/

Hello friends!
We not only have more informational articles in the works, but we are also extending an invitation to other researchers to host their research on local fascists and white supremacists on our site. We will also be taking submissions.

As we all know, threads on this platform often break, get reported, or users get banned, meaning vital community safety information is lost. We want to help prevent that.

This also isn’t limited to previously published threads/tweets, if you’ve been working on something already and want to partner together to get it out, we’re here to help. We can give you credit or we can publish it anonymously for you.

All hosted research must be verified and would be vetted through an editorial partnership. If you have research you would like to live off twitter in article form, please reach out!

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Followup articles about Hunter Forsyth, the neo-Nazi former (because fired) firefighter in Coweta County, show how comfortable far right "extremists" can get when embedded in a culture of "good ole boy" reactionary conservatism. (While we're using a southern term for it, this doesn't mean a similar culture of patriarchy and white supremacy doesn't exist outside the South).

https://web.archive.org/web/20221222002538/https://www.ajc.com/news/investigations/coweta-fire-department-dogged-by-race-issues/XCFHTAB4YZE5DLJPTI53GIT5C4/

https://web.archive.org/web/20221222002505/https://www.ajc.com/news/report-fired-georgia-firefighter-regretted-extremist-ties/YLTWMTV6SVAC3HRKN3W4FHKF6Q/

To summarize, the Coweta County Fire Department was rotten from the top down. As soon as we published our piece on the Nazi firefighter, we got emails from people in the department telling us there were systematic problems. We couldn't do much on our own to follow up, but we did our best to get these people in touch with mainstream journalists. Luckily at least one of them followed up, and you can see the results in the two links above.

This is an absolutely vile comment from the Fire Chief:

"The documents show minority recruits took their complaints to the county’s head of human resources after Fire Chief Robby Flanagan ostensibly tried to ease tensions last spring, but made them worse. During a meeting in April in which the department leaders were trying to build team camaraderie among the recruits, the chief told the group he didn’t like responding to calls where the victims are Black women because they “are hard to deal with cause they don’t (shut) up,” according to documents.""

The Black firefighters were, obviously, shocked. The Nazi firefighter we outed took it as encouragement:

"One of the longer statements came from Forsyth, who was fired last week after a left-wing activist group published its report linking him to the far-right group White Lives Matter, which advocates for a whites-only government. In his written statement, Forsyth recalled that one of the chief’s comments “was on how different races react to different scenarios and situations.”
“The story elaborates on how African American women are more talkative and willing to assert their opinion and may or may not listen to EMS or fire personnel,” Forsyth wrote. “Many other stories were shared and I feel that Class 739 learned a lot of valuable lessons that day.”"

Our commentary is that reactionary conservatism forms the bedrock without which Nazism could not support itself or even exist. They are not the same ideology, and Nazis are willing to break certain social codes that conservatives are not, but they have a highly symbiotic relationship. Nazis hide among reactionary conservatives and use them as cover: reactionary conservatives both protect Nazis and use Nazis as a shield against accusations of bigotry ("you call EVERYONE you don't like a Nazi"!)

In this case, Forsyth's Nazism was so flagrant, he lost his protection. But there are many like him embedded in state institutions who keep their cover because they know how to hide themselves better.

Hopefully the Black firefighters affected by Flanagan's disgusting anti-Black racism and misogynoir will begin to get some kind of justice now that their stories are being told. And Flanagan needs to be ousted immediately for the sake of all inhabitants of Coweta County (which according to the latest statistics includes more than 25,000 Black people).

#CowetaCounty #Georgia #antifascism #coweta #RobbyFlanagan #BlackFirefighters #HunterForsyth #Newnan #Nazi #WhiteLivesMatter

The second article in our series exposing Rose City Nationalists is here! Give it a read and make sure to follow @StumptownRC and @RoseCityAntifa

Be sure to wish Zachary Lambert and his wife Alyssa of Hillsboro a very unhappy Christmas.🎅❤️💚

https://stumptownresearchcollective.noblogs.org/zachary-lambert/