Asking, because apparently it is necessary:
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In context, this would seem to be referring to former Defy Media head Alexander Macris, who is definitely not a Nazi now or at any time previously. Don't know of a single staffer, writer, contributor, or even freelancer who could be accurately described as a Nazi. Even on the forums, I do not know of any time when "Nazi assholes" were a thing. People have taken to throwing around the term "alt-right" here recently, but even then there has been no evidence of that and it is generally just being used wrongly as a term for conservative anti-globalists. Macris himself is only accused of being alt-right through guilt by association with someone who himself is only called alt-right through guilt by association (at least the latter voluntarily associated, albeit temporarily, with the alt-right when its self-identified membership was more ideologically diverse).
However, alt-right is not interchangeable with Nazi and using that already flimsy and inflammatory accusation as an excuse to call people once involved with this site Nazis is not only horrifically unethical from a journalistic standpoint, but also legally hazardous. Supposedly there has already been one lawsuit initiated over this kind of inflammatory rhetoric by the new editor-in-chief so one would think there would be an interest in pulling back rather than doubling down even harder. In the current political climate when people are basically encouraged to physically assault people they deem "Nazis" to the point there was literally a recent case [https://www.campusreform.org/?ID=11217] where a university professor trained in a military fighting style attacked a YouTuber outside a gaming convention and threatened to murder him because the guy criticized a feminist and some blog briefly published a piece [http://boundingintocomics.com/2018/08/07/comic-crusaders-writer-advocates-increased-violence-in-wake-of-the-quarterings-attack-at-gen-con/] praising and encouraging such behavior, it is just obscene to throw around "Nazi" accusations so frivolously.
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In context, this would seem to be referring to former Defy Media head Alexander Macris, who is definitely not a Nazi now or at any time previously. Don't know of a single staffer, writer, contributor, or even freelancer who could be accurately described as a Nazi. Even on the forums, I do not know of any time when "Nazi assholes" were a thing. People have taken to throwing around the term "alt-right" here recently, but even then there has been no evidence of that and it is generally just being used wrongly as a term for conservative anti-globalists. Macris himself is only accused of being alt-right through guilt by association with someone who himself is only called alt-right through guilt by association (at least the latter voluntarily associated, albeit temporarily, with the alt-right when its self-identified membership was more ideologically diverse).
However, alt-right is not interchangeable with Nazi and using that already flimsy and inflammatory accusation as an excuse to call people once involved with this site Nazis is not only horrifically unethical from a journalistic standpoint, but also legally hazardous. Supposedly there has already been one lawsuit initiated over this kind of inflammatory rhetoric by the new editor-in-chief so one would think there would be an interest in pulling back rather than doubling down even harder. In the current political climate when people are basically encouraged to physically assault people they deem "Nazis" to the point there was literally a recent case [https://www.campusreform.org/?ID=11217] where a university professor trained in a military fighting style attacked a YouTuber outside a gaming convention and threatened to murder him because the guy criticized a feminist and some blog briefly published a piece [http://boundingintocomics.com/2018/08/07/comic-crusaders-writer-advocates-increased-violence-in-wake-of-the-quarterings-attack-at-gen-con/] praising and encouraging such behavior, it is just obscene to throw around "Nazi" accusations so frivolously.
