It arrives looking like safety and comfort
It arrives looking like safety and comfort
It arrives looking like safety and comfort
I sometimes fear that
\ people think that fascism arrives in fancy dress
\ worn by grotesques and monsters
\ as played out in endless re-runs of the Nazis.
Fascism arrives as your friend.
\ It will restore your honour,
\ make you feel proud,
\ protect your house,
\ give you a job,
\ clean up the neighbourhood,
\ remind you of how great you once were,
\ clear out the venal and the corrupt,
\ remove anything you feel is unlike you...
It doesn't walk in saying,
\ "Our programme means militias, mass imprisonments, transportations, war and persecution."
https://michaelrosenblog.removed/2014/05/fascism-i-sometimes-fear.html?m=1
Also, the nazis ruled for six years, in what some people still consider a golden age (it wasn't), before starting a world war.
It's crazy how short the Confederacy and 3rd Reich were, considering their popularity.
The same Michael Rosen of YTP fame??
The very same. He has lots of writings on various things
And acknowledging this is "woke" which is why facists try to make "woke" an insult.
10000000%.
As someone who was raised among maga pale skins, this is soooo true. Those brainwashed dummies were partying in the suburbs for the 4th of july, while gestapo ICE was kidnapping people from my city. Fucking gross.
I find your usage of "maga" interesting (in a non judgmental analytical sense). The term "maga" is much less than a decade old. Is it commonly used retrospectively for the roots of the movement (which certainly existed decades ago)?
You won't stay in that group either.
It's selling you power over minorities.
Conservatism loves hierarchies. There's a strong belief that people are where they're meant to be in that hierarchy. They freely acknowledge that the hierarchy exists, but they insist it's actually a meritocracy. This explains why the most conservative people are the ones who happen to find themselves at the top of that hierarchy. Conservatism lets them believe that they're there because that's how things are supposed to be.
Fascism is all about actively enforcing that hierarchy. With regular conservatism it's enough to keep people down by putting obstacles in their way. For example, there's no rule about hiring a woman, but the hiring decisions are all made by straight, white, christian men, and they just happen to see other straight, white, christian men as the most qualified. Think Mad Men. The best thing about that system is that, according to the laws and rules, it's "fair". There are no hiring quotas, no preferential treatment, the rules say everybody has the same chance. It's just that in practice the people getting hired and promoted happen to look like the people hiring and promoting them.
Progressives then make rules trying to get rid of this bias. Because white, male, christian men can't be trusted to pick the best people and instead keep picking their buddies and people who look like them, rules are put in place to make sure other people get a shot. If you believe that the hierarchy that exists is right and natural, this feels like an attack. It feels like they're forcing hiring managers to hire unqualified people and take the jobs from the people who deserve them. So, they go fascist.
Fascism is basically a way to enforce the "natural" hierarchy. Now, instead of relying on a "fair" system where those at the top of the hierarchy were given a free choice and expected to choose people who looked like them. Now, the choice is removed. So, the state ensures that everything is returned to "normal" and "traditional" values are upheld.
Captain America should've bothered to ask a few Germans how the whole Nazi thing happened.
"He promized to reztore ze greatnez of diz country. Und to kikz out ze Roma people taking ze jobs."
Or if you think you're part of the privileged group. Most people who vote for fascism are not part of the privileged group and don't find out until it's too late.
What happens is you're part of the privileged group until fascism has consumed the previous unprivileged group, then has to identify a new unprivileged group in order to keep the whole charade going, to keep people believing that the fascists are providing order and safety. Suddenly you become an other, a target, and you're not safe anymore.
Many people don't recognize this cycle happening until they end up on the wrong side of it.
Too many YouTubers are exactly this. Talking about supporting Bernie Sanders and feminism, then criticizing people being happy Charlie Kirk is dead while ignoring the things he actually did and staying quiet about all the shit the oppressors have been doing constantly (shoeonhead for example).
"But I'm friends with them" they say, as if that implies they're nice people.
Yet, it's those groups who have the biggest influence I'd say because they're so confident they won't be affected themselves later down the road.
That is because Youtubers are literally dependend on one of the biggest players on the american capitalist market. They thus have follow the rules and many do not want to risk their livelyhoods. Taking some superficial education from YouTube is great but it should be a starting point for finding good books about the topics. After all YouTube is first and foremost a source of entertainment.