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::rubs eyes, sighs:: White supremacy *is* fascism. End of day, the goal is to empower an authoritarian caste-based system of governance, in part by scapegoating black& brown "enemies of the state." For fuck& #39;s sake, people, we& #39;re *living* it; come on, keep up.
Fascist systems are in-progress in lots of countries right now. The American manifestation of it is unique in some ways having to do with our history & economy (see #1619Project) -- e.g. the flattening of ethnic hierarchies and historical enmities for most ppl with white skin.
But in most ways, the modern American version really isn& #39;t that unique. It& #39;s eugenics-driven: see panic over whiteness being somehow "diluted" or threatened, and attempts at state control of women & reproduction to serve whiteness. It& #39;s resource-driven and military-jingoistic.
So, Same Old Hitlerish Shit, Different Day: pick a group to valorize via political power and supposed shared cultural values; make & #39;em up if you have to. Pick a group to villainize; try to wipe them out. Start a war, or try to, to justify the totalitarian takeover.
Reinforce with, in our modern era, a surveillance state and disinformation in addition to media control; shake, bake.
But in the US, it& #39;s all centered around race. Racism is systemic discrimination in service to white supremacist ideals. White supremacists want fascism.
But in the US, it& #39;s all centered around race. Racism is systemic discrimination in service to white supremacist ideals. White supremacists want fascism.
Do most American white supremacists identify with the party of Mussolini? No -- prob & #39;cause American education is shit and half of us haven& #39;t heard of him.
https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="🙄" title="Face with rolling eyes" aria-label="Emoji: Face with rolling eyes"> But make no mistake: American white supremacists want what he had. They want Hitler& #39;s "success" in murdering Jews et al.
(Except here, I& #39;m pretty sure they will -- are beginning to -- murder the brown people first. They& #39;re busy setting up Jim Crow 2 for black & indigenous folks; a society like ours has to have an underclass! But they& #39;re esp. terrified of Latinx people& #39;s reproductive power. Anyway.)
So I am uninterested in quibbling over whether racism is fascism. That just tells me I& #39;m dealing with either someone who doesn& #39;t understand the systemic nature of racism, or someone who& #39;s busy squinting at individual leaves as a way of denying the forest slowly swallowing us all.
(RE the latter -- look, we all cope in our own ways, but at least try not to cope in ways that *aid* fascism by obfuscating it, denying its seriousness or complexity, or apologize for it. [Yes, "It was only racism" is fascism apologia.])
tl;dr John W. Campbell was a fucking fascist, @jeannette_ng was right, and the name of the awards should be changed. #FightFascismEveryDay
My headspace for about the last 24 hours:
(I saw this little cartoon first on Tumblr years ago. Anybody knows the artist, lmk so I can tag them!)
This seems to be the artist& #39;s Insta: https://www.instagram.com/llamapallooza/ ">https://www.instagram.com/llamapall...
