But remember to wear heavy protective gloves and/or use a tool, because sometimes there are razors or other dangerous objects taped under the flyer to injure people who try to remove them.
But let’s not be alarmists about it either. People keep adding this warning about hidden razor blades to posts about removing nazi propaganda and I don’t want people to be scared away from actually doing something.
I have seen only two instances online of razor blades being taped to some piece of nazi propaganda, and in neither case did it hurt anyone, because a razor blade under a sticker would be pretty easy to see and feel before it would cut you. Just take a look at the sticker or poster you’re removing and use common sense. Use a key or something if you’re scared of razor blades.
Let’s try not to discourage people from actually removing fascist propaganda by telling them to wear heavy gloves or whatever
to protect against something that practically never happens when ripping a taped piece of paper from a wall.
If you see fascist propaganda, just tear that shit off or cover it up!
Thank you for injecting some sanity. Razor blades under stickers is extremely rare. It’s not something you need to worry about.
Yes. I have never seen anyone do this, nor have I met anyone who has had a direct experience with Fascists sticking razorblades under stickers of posters. It’s really not that big a threat.
Yeah, it’s so annoying. Lately when I post about removing stickers I get like 40 people falling over themselves to add a comment to add something about being careful of razor blades, and I’m willing to bet not one of them has ever actually encountered razor blades under a sticker or poster. It’s just scaring people in to not removing nazi propaganda.
True. Never found one either. Unless you have heard that this happens in your own city, this really isn’t something to worry about.
I think these techniques are very local and get used in places where nazis are very strongly focussed on street violence and feel so invincible that they’re not worried at all about getting the local antifascists worked up for a fight.
In many places, fascists either choose the ‘respectable’ legal route or shout a lot but are totally outnumbered and know it and they shit themselves at the thought of a real confrontation. (& let’s keep it that way, a confident nazi is a far more dangerous nazi than a scared one so let’s not wait for them to get confident)
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