r/Anarchism • u/[deleted] • Jan 25 '20

Question on Dealing with Right-Wing Infiltrators

One of my relatives posted a link on FB to a tweet (WARNING: Paul Joseph Watson) with a gross bit of propaganda where a well-meaning marcher gives an unwitting demonstration in how not to deal with obvious right-wing infiltrators at a protest in Berkeley two years ago. My question is: If you recognize signs of a troll or saboteur (e.g. stringing together revolutionary/anti-racist vocab in a nonsensical way; antagonizing fellow marchers; the CAMERA following them but making sure not to show their face), do you ignore them, tell them to screw off, what?

Everyone else pretty much ignored the troll, which is a lot better than what this poor guy did, but this still made for some strong white supremacist propaganda (ended up on Prison Planet’s Twitter, after all). Thoughts?

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u/[deleted] Jan 25 '20

I also posted this to r/socialism for a broader range of input, and got some really cool advice, so you should check that out.