Reminder to US activists and bloggers in these fucked up times:
Canada, Australia, Europe, etc. all have their own fascists trying to take power right now. Pretty much all of them are just as terriffying as Trump. At the same time we’re got a lot of our own horrible government-imposed shit already going on. Please do NOT put us forward as examples of nice progressive countries with great health care and human rights. It’s bullshit and it makes it really difficult for us to draw attention to our own very real problems.
Reminder to
Europeans, Canadians, etc
in these fucked up times:
Don’t let the US-centrism of the online world get to you. Don’t use Trump as an excuse to convince yourself that things are not so bad here. Don’t close your eyes to the dangers of fascism and capitalism in your own country. Just because your own home grown flavor of fascism doesn’t deny climate change or doesn’t focus on banning abortion doesn’t mean they’re not just as brutal and just as dangerous.
ausfailure’s clinical, bureaucratic, impersonal – but incremental – fascism is pretty fucking terrifying, tbh.
It might be helpful to make a list of every countries’ most prominent fascists to get an idea of the many ways it manifests. The raving baffoon, the purity obsessed preacher, bureaucratic clinical system of slow death, the islamophobes on a crusade, etc.
Fascism in the Netherlands is the
islamophobes on a crusade: focussed on “all foreigners are bad, all muslims are terrorists and all borders need to be closed or we will lose our culture” bullshit. It’s extremely cliche and people still fucking fall for it.
Each country has multiple of these movements and each of these movements warrants a long analysis on how it works and how to fight it, but it might be good to make an overview so people can focus from there. .
In Greece it’s mainly patriotism. Golden Dawn’s symbol is an ancient greek decorative pattern and they’ve tried to pass off their nazi salutes as ancient greek ones. They use immigrants as scapegoats and claim they’re threatening our racial purity (which we have apparently. news to me). They give people someone to blame for today’s awful situation and promise they can fix it, and return the country to an idealised past. They’ve also organised charity events that excluded immigrants and other stuff like that to boost their “true friend of the people” narrative.
Ah yes, the ‘true friend of the people as long as you’re part of the masterrace’ type. Nasty one.
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