@drwho@hackers.town dude, the guy's gone back to preaching anti-semitism and suggesting violence.

Do you have any idea how many years of work a community puts in to de-radicalize just one person? It's a huge amount. The article makes no claims as to whether or not the stories presented here are representative of neo-nazis as a whole. If folks that had been previously, laboriously, de-radicalized have been regressing, it seems pretty newsworthy to me. Not necessarily as a judge of character, but because it lets communities know that those folks might need extra support right now, and that maybe it's worth checking in on folks around the fringes.

After all, fascism often wears a very friendly face to the 'right' kinds of people, and once it makes a home in a community, all the voices that are most different from those preaching it all disappear. Not the folks opposed to fascism, but the quiet folks, perhaps who've seen first hand what it did to their home, quietly go elsewhere, because the folks running the show have demonstrated that they're willing to give fascists a platform.

Anyways, just FYI, I'm surprised and disappointed that "writing about the relapse of a high profile neo-nazi is a bad idea because it might discourage neo-nazis from reforming" was your takeaway from that article. IMO, the conditions in the last year and a half were ideal to make folks relapse, and maybe looking at how to improve those conditions in the future is a better shot for helping folks reform than being mad at journalists for covering the story.