Sorry, Mister Nazi Wannabe, your name, and photograph are now part of the social media cloud. You’re on Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, DailyKos, and a myriad of other websites. You’re now in countless databases and your little exercise in white supremacist hate marching will show up on every background check a potential-employer might run on you in the future. Kiss your chances of landing a tenured teaching position, a good job in a successful corporation, or a cushy government job goodbye.
At least the old Ku Klux Klan was smart enough to hide behind those ridiculous ghost suits with the pointy heads, with just two eye holes and a slit for the mouth to eject racist spittle.
Today, there are high-resolution low-light capable cameras in every cell phone; there are cameras on every building and traffic light (or soon will be). There’s no longer the anonymity of being in a mob. If you’re there, everyone is going to find out. People are looking at online photographs of yesterday’s Charlottesville Alt-right hate march and identifying the participants — reporting their identities online (the cloud never forgets). Stragglers who escape detection can still be identified by facial-recognition algorithms that are improving in sophistication and reliability.
Keep it up, alt-right fools. We know who you are and you’re never going to live it down.