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Ethical? Cole White fired white nationalist and Peter Cvjetanovic outed

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Cole White
Cole White White Nationalist fired from his post at Berkely's Top Dog after being publicly outed on social media.
Cole White
Cole White White Nationalist fired from his post at Berkely’s Top Dog after being publicly outed on social media.

Cole White and Peter Cvjetanovic Unite the Right white nationalist supporters outed. Has the hard left embraced coercive militant tactics that it blames the right wing with?

Cole White a Berkeley, California resident has been fired from his post at ‘Top Dog’ restaurant after being outed on social media after having attended this weekend’s Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville, Virginia.

The man’s demise came after social media watchdog, ‘Yes, You’re Racist’ publicly outed the man’s identity, leading to his employer firing the man after being notified.

While Top Dog declined to release an immediate statement, the outlet did release a statement stating, ‘for now, we feel it is imperative to let you know that Cole White is no longer employed by Top Dog, LLC.’

White is one of amy many alleged protesters who have been outed by Twitter users, who are using photographs from the event to try and identify members of the alt-right.

While some wondered whether the group may have impinged on the rights of individuals by exposing them to hostile followers, the group defended its stance issuing the following stance:

Attn trolls: It’s not “doxxing” to identify people who appeared in public at a rally and have given media interviews about their beliefs.

To date, it wasn’t immediately clear whether Cole had publicly discussed his views and to what degree the social media group may itself be behaving as violently and willfully to the disregard of its targets it sought to publicly shame for their views. Views which one ought to be able to maintain in a free society, irrespective of how distasteful most of us might find.

Also outed was 20 year old Reno, California man, Peter Cvjetanovic, who was identified as the angry-looking torch bearer who marched through the University of Virginia on Friday night with hundreds of white supremacists and nationalists.

The student, an undergraduate studying history and political science, told KTVN he had traveled to the march ‘for the message that white European culture has a right to be here just like every other culture’.

Like many the man had come to symbolically protest the removal of statue of Confederate General Lee.

Added Cvjetanovic, ‘It is not perfect; there are flaws to it, of course. However I do believe that the replacement of the statue will be the slow replacement of white heritage within the United States and the people who fought and defended and built their homeland. 

‘Robert E Lee is a great example of that. He wasn’t a perfect man, but I want to honor and respect what he stood for during his time.’

Peter Cvjetanovic,
Pictured Peter Cvjetanovic who was also outed at the Unite the White rally.

He added that he wasn’t the ‘angry’ person seen in the photos but defended his beliefs as ‘a white nationalist.’

‘I care for all people,’ he said. ‘We all deserve a future for our children and for our culture. White nationalists aren’t all hateful; we just want to preserve what we have.’

Preserve but at what cost, an argument one could also claim on the anti nationalistic supporters who some wonder may have turned to equally repugnant conduct in a bid to get their message out, which is to say, ‘only the right message can be tolerated….’ 

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