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In reply to the discussion: the white woman who called the police on a napping black girl at yale has been doxxed [View all]Downtown Hound
(12,618 posts)If they were doxxing me it WOULD NOT, I repeat, WOULD NOT be a case of mistaken identity. I oppose them with every blood fiber in my being, so if I was being doxxed by them it would be because I did something that got their attention and they found out about it and doxxed me. In which case I would not plead my innocence, I would confess my guilt, tell them to go fuck themselves, and state that I would do it again in heartbeat.
The hypothetical scenario you keep sounding the air raid siren over would be something in which I was accused of being or doing something I wasn't or I didn't, say for example, falsely being accused of being a neo-Nazi. In this case, it would be fairly easy for me to prove my innocence. First of all, if they started calling my job to get me fired, well, I work for a very enlightened company with good progressive values, and I have a good relationship with my supervisors. They would believe me if I told them that it was a case of mistaken identity and they would stand by me. Plus, they'd probably secretly be proud of me for being the progressive that I am.
Second, I have a long history of activism, including arrests on my record, for acts of civil disobedience for left wing causes, including one against California's prop 8, which made gay marriage illegal. It would be pretty easy for me to prove that I am not, in fact, a Nazi, and most of the people who know me would laugh at the idea, so I doubt I would lose many friends. I have more than 10,000 posts on DU, as well as facebook and other sites, all of which would show a strong commitment to progressive ideals and anti-racism.
I don't call the cops on people of color for merely being in a certain place, So I don't think I have to worry about being doxxed for that. In fact, I go out of my way to avoid calling the cops at all unless its absolutely necessary. In other words, yes, I do think it would be pretty easy for me to prove my innocence to those who matter. If it was Nazis, LOL. They can go to hell. No need to prove my innocence with them except to prove I wasn't one of them.