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Right, the point of a missing person sign is to get help finding a person. You put them up in places where the victim is likely to be so the people who see the sign can identify them.

These are 100% not that.

The Guardian has a good article about the tribalism going on right now (https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/oct/29/us-support-divided-israel-palestine-gaza-war).

Any empathy is seen as a betrayal right now. It’s imo also one of the reasons things are so terrible to begin with.

Great question! Initially, I was 100% against doxxing because it turns into vigilante justice when people gang up on a suspect that hasn't been properly tried in a court, so innocent people could become victims for something they didn't do or pay excessive consequences. However, with your question, I think it points out some nuance.

In the case of the Jan 6 insurrectionists, the FBI was trying to find them to press charges, so I think it was appropriate to doxx them. Protesters that didn't partake directly in the insurrection were also outed and I'm iffy on that one. Their presence still had an impact on the insurrection because it gave energy to the thing and possible increased intimidation. Imagine if there was 1 person outside your house with a guillotine vs 100 people with a guillotine. The latter would likely instill more fear.

Ultimately, I think the main issue is not with being doxxed, but with the vigilante justice that people like to enact when someone is doxxed. Rather than say firing this dentist, the people that had the power to do so could have just accepted that the dentist had his own opinion on the matter irrelevant to his employment and left it at that. Yet, they acted on the desire to punish him by firing him. I think that's messed up because for all we know, he might have had a valid reason for that behavior or at the very least, it was not affecting his work. I think it's normal to be frustrated with the situation and have emotional responses to it. Rather than punish and isolate him, they could have had a compassionate talk with him to hear him out and possibly come to a collaborative stance to help ameliorate the situation. After all, conflicts aren't resolved by increasing antagonism. It's resolved by engaging in understanding and healthy interdependence. If anything, all they did was further radicalize the dentist.

This concludes my TED Talk.

"We did it, Lemmy!"

It's difficult to explain if you're not in their cultural atmosphere reading the room (in my case I have family from there). Outsiders can currently see propaganda show-offs going on, India is maneuvering thought in favor of Israel (one might say going against previous sympathies in the process) while Pakistan is covertly one of the strongest sympathizers of Palestine. Nothing out of the ordinary, but it's the subtleties in the expressions that would raise the first alarms if an outsider begged for hints that something is about to erupt. I'd give it one to three years.

I'm more interested in the opinions of the anonymous people who put the posters up, and what they thought it would accomplish

Rip poster

Virtue signaling

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Profit

Good thing they were there to remove the posters of the kidnapped kids before those evil Jews could complete their genocide.

Seriously, the actions those people took literally had no effect apart from showing EXTREME disrespect to the families of those kids.