Comment on Justin Trudeau resigns as Canadian prime minister - live updates

• gift_of_gab@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  So there’s no one-study, one-link, etc, for this. North America has a rise in people joining (and creating) fascist groups - in addition if you look at any Conservative parties voters, they’re predominantly male. Here in Canada we have this problem

  A lot of this is via Russia, see this fun set of numbers.

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  Also with the ‘Convoy’ which our incoming Conservative Prime Minister marched with.

  Worldwide if you look at anywhere that is moving very openly towards fascism, (France, Germany, etc) you’ll find the voters of said parties trend male, and young. I haven’t saved any links, but someone here might have saved some.

  If you don’t mind my postulating; the why is that men have been taught for ages now that they’re the top, they’re the default. Room temperature is what a (middle aged, white) man finds comfortable; drugs weren’t tested for women for quite some time; the main ‘character’ is media is statistically almost always male: image

  So then we add in that men are shown that they are more violent towards their partners than women are, and they see people of colour, or women, having programs that help them try to equal out numbers vs. their white/male counterparts, yet their lives were often set to fail by end-stage capitalisms myriad issues such as lack of affordable housing, worsening job conditions, and sociopathic CEO’s who will literally get people killed just to make line go up. Then they hear that they actually have it the easiest of all sets of people. So they are trying to match in their head how these two things can both be true; how are they suffering all this negativity and the best-off? They need something to talk about, how they are also discriminated against, so they find anything they can and use it as a wedge issue. Men commit suicide more? Must be because of women. And which ideology says that men are the be-all-, end-all, strongest and best? Fascism. Which promises easy answers to difficult problems? Fascism. Who lets you belong to the in-group, and punishes the out-group? Fascism. So for young men who are never shown other options, and the fact that youtube/social media literally guides young men towards these things (because it causes engagement to go up, you see), means they are more likely to ascribe to them. Socialism requires sacrifice and working as a team, something men have been taught to avoid; it’s all about being the rugged individual, the maverick, the solo whatever (at least in my experience and understanding of recent history).

  To sum, fascism offers easy answers and the ability to be the in-crowd, while giving you an enemy that is both weak (and thus beatable), but strong (so you don’t look like a pussy.)

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  • oxideseven@lemmy.ca ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Thanks for this!

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    • gift_of_gab@lemmy.world ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      No worries, if you do find the specific links keep them, I regret not bookmarking them.

      Good luck in the coming fasc-y times.

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