Comment on FBI Labels Anti-Fascists and Anti-Racists as Violent Extremists

• masquenox@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  But confronting fascists is good optics for them.

  Absolutely not.

  Anyone who believes that understands nothing about fascism at all. The pretense of “unopposable strength” is literally the only reason they will show themselves in public - if you don’t oppose it forcefully they win by default.

  A news article covering a bunny of dudes waving nazi flags

  The media will happily ignore fascism. After all, the rich media bosses know who it is that will protect their precious private property for them, just like all the rich people do… that is why they fund fascists - there is no such thing as “grassroots fascism”. The fact that antifa’s resistance meant they couldn’t is literally one of the reasons the US’s secret police is now seeing antifa as a threat to the status quo.

  Ignoring fascism is no different than ignoring climate change - doing so doesn’t make it go away.

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  • SkyezOpen@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    What do you think was more optically advantageous for the left, a bunch of patriot front idiots getting arrested just for marching, or antifa and the proud boys brawling?

    We’re not at the point of civil war. Optics are still more important than punching them.

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    • masquenox@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      What do you think was more optically advantageous for the left

      Showing the fascists - and their spineless “centrist” allies - that they will face real opposition in the streets. When the fash start marching, that is the only optics that matter.

      bunch of patriot front idiots getting arrested just for marching

      Arrested by whom? Their KKK and neo-nazi allies you optimistically call “police”?

      You don’t have to believe me, Clyde… you can hear it straight from a neo-nazi, too.

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      • SkyezOpen@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Arrested by whom? Their KKK and neo-nazi allies you optimistically call “police”?

        npr.org/…/patriot-front-white-supremacist-arreste…

        Yes.

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• SkyeStarfall@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Sure, just “ignore” it, conveniently forgetting they’re very much embedded in mainstream politics now and starting culture war campaigns, banning books, and actively attempting to dismantle democracy.

  Fascism in the US is already here.

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