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TigerAce@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 days ago… Said Hitler about the jews. Said Netanyahu about Palestinians. Said Trump about trans people.
If you think you are superior and consider them untermenschen, how are you any different from a fascist exactly?
outhouseperilous@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 days ago
When a fascist talks shit, it’s talking about itself. Literally always.
Also, not sure trump has said that about trans people. Think he’s saving it for the midterms.
I can explain what i mean when i use words and actually consider stuff intellectually, rather than relying on shallow understandings and gut emotional reactions that i valorize and absolutely never explore or apply nuance to. Hey…
Also, blue hair.
TigerAce@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 days ago
Removing DEI, stripping trans service people of their rights and benefits, denying trans people their identity… Yeah, sure, I’m just talking crap.
There are fascist intellectuals too. Remember Oppenheimer for example? There were many nazi scientists in nazi Germany. Being a fascist doesn’t automatically mean being dumb or ignorant. It means having a lack of compassion as they don’t care about causing harm to others and they they believe there’s a rank in people, in which they are better than others. Ubermensch and untermensch. They believe some people are more human than others and deserve more rights. Dehumanizing groups of people is usually done to justify crimes against humanity. Murder, torture (like forced medical experimentation like Mengele did), slavery, re-education, sterilization, extermination, etc.
No matter how evil, fucked up, imbicile, hateful or corrupt someone may be, they are still human and should be treated as such. Even if they don’t treat others like that. Because classifying someone or a group as less human is fascism.
I am better than those bad people. I’m a better person. I’m not more human than them.
Look at the world’s history, or what’s happening right now. Humans are fucking evil and fucked up. Some are good, some are bad, but we’re all still human.
outhouseperilous@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 days ago
Oh absolutely trying to kill trans people, for the base, but does not personally give a shit. Is saving the rhetoric for an election.
There were. There aren’t anymore because it’s a fundamentally anti intellectual movement. Their analyses all amount to a shallow disdain for complexity and contrivance to baffle shitlibs into alliance.
Again, not a distinction im making or care about. This is not meaningful to me Who are you arguing with? Is this just action for the sake of action on your part?
TigerAce@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 days ago
Example: Jordan Peterson.
There are many others.
Don’t underestimate your enemy my friend. Just because the ones in the foreground are low IQ screaming idiots doesn’t mean the quiet ones behind the curtains are low IQ too.
It’s not about intellect per se. It’s about empathy. Take a sociopath for example. They can be highly intellectual but their goal will justify any means because they lack any form of it.
I’m not saying intellect has nothing to do with the rise of fascism, because fascists are very good at manipulating low IQ people with disinformation. These low IQ people, the heard, won’t see the harm they do because that would drive their support away so it’s all being hidden and twisted.
But the core of the rise of fascism is definitely planned by intellectual people and you should not underestimate that.
Don’t just look at the skinheads on the street. Look at the people funding fascist tyrants.