Also love how they’re trying to make “alt-left,” a thing. Alt-left isn’t a thing. We don’t call Trump supporters alt-right for nothing, they made that up themselves. Nobody calls themselves alt-left.
Not only have I been saying this since they coined the idea, but notice when the alt-right vandalizes Jewish cemeteries and memorials it’s just “kids being kids” while simply making a statement that you do not want a fascistic government (something conservatives often say without realizing the irony) it’s a national crisis?
I know it’s not hard to point out reactionaries hypocrisy when it comes to like safe spaces or hug boxes or whatever but genuinely how much of an echo chamber do you have to exist in for you to think this is a reasonable thing to say
reblog if attacking fascism is really the hill you want to die on
this is literally like one of the most justified and honorable hills you could die on??? lol??
actually I’m looking for the fascist to die on this hill
The thing is, fascists don’t need real violence to back up claims of lawlessness. They just make shit up. Crime rates have been falling for years in the U.S. and immigrants are responsible for crimes at a lower rate, but politicians just make up stats about the U.S. being a hellhole of crime and immigrants being violent “animals,” and their followers will eat it up because it’s what they want to hear. Under these circumstances there’s no point in antifascists tying their own hands behind their backs in the hopes of appeasing the enemy–it won’t work.
Jair Bolsonaro, a fascist, pro military dictatorship, racist, misogynist, and homophobe, has been elected Brazilian president. My heart goes out to all Brazilians who are in danger and living in fear right now because of him and his horrid followers.
I’m crying right now. It’s been really a terrible evening here. The future is more uncertain than ever and I wish it was overreaction bit it’s not. Their violence already started and tonight was no exception. We’ve been adopting this sentence now that we lost (WE LOST A LOT MORE THAN OUR CANDIDATE) that says “ninguém solta a mão de ninguém” (no one lets go of the other’s hand or something like that). It’s a good premisse. Thanks for your thoughts. Since it’s a world wave of hate, we are in this togeter.
We’re in this together. No matter how small our thoughts and efforts may seem, we are side by side and hand in hand.
I’m kinda happy about that because I don’t like Wendig or his writing a whole lot, but on the other hand I’m wondering if he’s been targeted by right-wing trolls like Gunn was.
I really feel like Disney needs to stop doing this though. Like I get it, they have the right to fire anyone but I really think they should at least talk to these people beforehand or something. Because a lot of the people who work under them are extremely vocal about their opinions. I am really surprised Sarah Silverman hasn’t been fired yet.
I have my issues with Wendig (idk very much about Gunn other than the story of his firing) but I also don’t like this recent trend of Disney evidently wanting everyone who works with them to be completely inoffensive and milquetoast…? Writers tend to be a passionate and political bunch, and if you’re going to be all nicey-nice and “can we all get along” about the current political climate then I don’t even want to know you, much less read your stuff. Silence in the face of the utter shit that’s going down today is a political stance of itself, a statement of compliance and agreement. We need more than ever for creators to speak up, and it’s frightening that big corporations are muzzling them and effectively silencing prominent voices of opposition to the rise of fascism.
It’s what happened to Jews in Germany in 1938 when their passports were declared invalid. That is what is beginning to happen here, now, to Hispanic citizens along the U.S.-Mexico border.
Oh, is it bad to compare the GOP to Nazis? Well, if members of the GOP do not like being compared to Nazis, they should consider not behaving exactly like Nazis.
Hispanic U.S. citizens, some of whom were in the U.S. military, are not being allowed to renew their passports. This is reportedly happening to “hundreds, even thousands” of Latinos, according to a report in the Washington Post. They’re getting letters from the State Department saying it does not believe they are citizens. The government claims their citizenships are fraudulent. “I’ve had probably 20 people who have been sent to the detention center—U.S. citizens,” Jaime Diez, an attorney in Brownsville, told The Washington Post.
The Washington Post also reports on ICE officials coming to citizens’ homes and taking their passports away. This is an escalation from a few months ago, when Americans were detained by ICE officials just for speaking Spanish to one another.
The administration is currently launching an effort to take citizenship from people who they suspect of fraud in obtaining it. Fraud in these cases is exceedingly rare. The last time the government tried to strip people of their citizenship was, according to Columbia Professor Mae Ngai, during The Red Scare of the 1950s. As Ngai remarks, McCarthyism is not typically remembered as a good period in American history.
There is good reason to believe that this could portend still worse things to come for the U.S. Hispanic population, unless people begin to speak out loudly, and fast.
This is not news, but it is an important read, especially for people who were previously unaware of the trend of neo-Nazis stealing pagan symbols for their own.
If you are an anti-racist, anti-fascist pagan, keep doing what you are doing, you are keeping the fight alive
If you are an anti-racist, anti-fascist person who is not a pagan, help us spread the word of this, stand in solidarity with us as we kick the fascists out of our communities
If you are a fascist pagan, fuck off, this faith is a peaceful one
No platforms for fascists.
~ Max
Uh… there was absolutely no need to be rude in that message?
Why the fuck off? Sure they’re bigoted/racist/homophobic but they were polite and civil, why couldn’t it just have been said ‘we don’t have anyone to share your views, thank you for contacting us and bye’?
Shut the fuck up geek nobody needs to treat assholes politely
Abhorrent, vile bigotry wrapped in “ please and thank yous” isnt polite. Its disgusting.
Racist language is not civil. Ever. By definition. Try again.
Because fascism arises most prominently in times of capitalist crisis; crisis screws over the working class, filling them with a deep political anger at the status quo. Socialism was a prominent movement throughout the western world in the early 1900s, and it represented a real outlet of change for many people. Fascists latched onto this rhetoric in order to absorb the disenfranchised into an ideology that appeared, on the surface, to support the working class. This is why fascism is often difficult for laypeople to pin down politically – fascists alter their rhetoric depending on who they’re trying to absorb, and it all conceals a deep desire to reinforce the capitalist class structure when the economy is in crisis and there’s widespread social unrest. In practice, fascism is a capitalist ideology – disempowering unions, crushing strikes, cultivating racism and sexism and nationalism to divide the working class, elevating a “natural set of elites”, abandoning even the pretense of democracy, etc. – the ruling class adapting to different conditions and using more overt rhetoric to defend the system of capital accumulation.
-Daividh
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