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Fascists Really Believe It

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  • "Dehumanising worldviews make the obvious humanity of their victims a feature, not a bug, by portraying them as both human and animal. This works for the same reason that a werewolf is more frightening than a wolf—it represents both a physical and metaphysical threat." https://www. liberalcurrents.com/fascists-r eally-believe-it/

    liberalcurrents@mastodon.worldMastodon · journa.host6h agoview on Mastodon ↗

  • “Reducing neofascism to emotion and personality goes hand in hand with an exculpatory move that centrists always make, in which someone cannot be a racist if they are nice, or friendly, or funny in other domains.” https://www. liberalcurrents.com/fascists-r eally-believe-it/

    fugueish@wandering.shopMastodon · newsie.social8h agoview on Mastodon ↗

  • This is a disturbing read with disturbing examples. It is also essential. Not just an essay on today's fascists, but on how ordinary human beings do horrific things. The essay doesn't touch on this, but I believe one important key to human civilization is basing our beliefs on evidence and constantly testing them (basically, science). Humans have…

    dgoldsmith@mastodon.socialMastodon · journa.host13h agoview on Mastodon ↗

  • “Fascists Really Believe It” "Living through a global resurgence of fascism, the greatest difficulty has proved to be not arguing against it, but convincing non-fascists that fascism’s adherents really mean it. That they believe what they are telling us they believe—and they will act accordingly.” https://www. liberalcurrents.com/fascists-r…

    marick@mstdn.socialMastodon · newsie.social14h agoview on Mastodon ↗

  • "Living through a global resurgence of fascism, the greatest difficulty has proved to be not arguing against it, but convincing non-fascists that fascism’s adherents really mean it. That they believe what they are telling us they believe—and they will act accordingly." https://www. liberalcurrents.com/fascists-r eally-believe-it/

    liberalcurrents@mastodon.worldMastodon · journa.host15h agoview on Mastodon ↗

  • Fascists Really Believe It https://www. liberalcurrents.com/fascists-r eally-believe-it/?ref=articles-and-essays-newsletter

    magdelenehall@mastodon.socialMastodon · mstdn.party20h agoview on Mastodon ↗