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Tennessee County DA fires prosecutor over posts praising Nazis, advocating killing migrants
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this post was submitted on 08 May 2025
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At least they did the sane thing and fired this person.
True, but it only happened after these journalists confronted the DA's office with the results of their investigation. The DA says they had no idea this guy was a nazi, but if that's true then their hiring and vetting process has serious problems, and I doubt those are going to be addressed in a meaningful way.
Yeah I had to double check the headline. Tennessee DA and fired for being anti-nazi.
It's a weird day
The sane thing would be for his Alma Mater to retroactively pull his diploma and any record of his attendance, his bank to close his account and send him a check (minus fees), his landlord to evict him, his cell and Internet service disconnected, and for him to be disbarred. Yeah, this is the kind of stuff a fascist regime would do to opponents but I'm really fucking fed up with how we pretty much accept Nazis to live and breath alongside us so long as they don't physically violate someone's person or property.
We carried out a fairly extensive study through the 1940s on how best to interact with Nazis. If memory serves, fire was indeed involved, but iirc in a context other than employment status.
In all fairness, that data is quite outdated at this point: I think it's long past due to engage in some peer review.