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Look at groups like Patriot Front and the NSN who, by default, balaclava up or black bloc.
Anarchists generally black bloc when they're going out to commit crimes. Fair enough, that's what it's for. They're hiding from police violence, or in some cases, far-right extremists who historically have murdered or plotted to murder anitfacists. But these neo-Nazis, they're hiding from the community. Masks are their daily public uniform, they hide when they're marching down the streets in another state, they hide when they're protesting against drag shows, they hide when they attend right-wing unity rallies. They are alien to the communities they're in (in many cases literally; they are arriving from other states of the country. But I mean it figuratively). They're so alien that their fellow reactionaries insist they are feds. Vidrel is the fucking Proud Boys unmasking neo-Nazis (Rose City Nationalists, founded by a Patriot Front member and borrowing heavily from them). When unmasked, many of them deny and insist they're not neo-Nazis, and many lose their jobs because being a Nazi is unacceptable to public relations.
That's a sign of success, when a society has made being a Nazi something to hide, something that ostracizes people.
