“Antifascism? That’s literally fascism”
A phrase spoken only by fascists
For any potential commenters who don’t understand, fascism isn’t when politically motivated threats of physical violence, it’s when far-right-wing, ultra-nationalist, centralized autocracy, belief in and support of social hierarchies, strong regimentation of society and the economy, and politically motivated threats of physical violence
Hey wait a second, one of the political parties in the US fits all those descriptions…
Boiled down, fascism is the belief that one group of humans is inherently better than another and as such should reign superior or wipe anyone out that resists. Could be motivated by racial, political or religious beliefs. In the US, it seems like all of those come together.
From an outside perspective, it’s the difference between someone looking at you with distaste, and someone aggressively attempting to sink a 9" knife into your gut, repeatedly, while standing in a pile of cut up baby corpses. Just because both sides have issues, doesn’t mean the 2 are comparable.
If the scenario was what you detailed you would of course be right. But it seems more like:
- Imperialism and pollution wrapped in the right-wing.
- Imperialism and maybe just a little less pollution wrapped in the left-wing.
I don’t care who fucks up their own country more. I care about who fucks me up more, which currently is basically the same for both sides.
Which clearly displays the bias in your perspective, maybe you need a new angle.
Look, I can wholeheartedly belive Party A does good for it’s country, while Party B does bad. But somehow both do on my expense.
Yes that party is the Democrats – Absolute morons, I mean just real dumb fuckers
I’m not saying you’re intentionally ignorant and I know this is a lot of words to read, but…
For any potential commenters who don’t understand, fascism isn’t when politically motivated threats of physical violence, it’s when far-right-wing,
Which party has more objectively conservative views?
ultra-nationalist,
Which party literally has a group called the Proud Boys? Which party tends to manipulate the American flag for all their causes i.e. Thin blue line? Which party thinks America is strictly for Americans and anyone outside our borders is somehow undesirable?
centralized autocracy,
Autocracy is a system of government in which absolute power is held by the ruler, known as an autocrat.
Which party idolizes their leader, flies flags with his name on it, wears his slogan on their clothes? Which party seems to think that anything their leader says is the truth, anyone who disagrees is a liar (fake news, alternative facts)? Which party literally tried to force their leader into power despite losing the election.
belief in and support of social hierarchies, strong regimentation of society and the economy,
Which party keeps reducing and eliminating social benefits because if you’re of a lower economic status, you somehow deserve less? Suggesting that the minimum wage shouldn’t be increased? And conversely, which party seems to think that billionaires deserve to have that money because they’re somehow smarter or work harder?
and politically motivated threats of physical violence
Which party had a noose hanging outside the capitol on January 6th?
Antifascism isn’t fascism, but Antifa, in a lot of public outings (where presumably only a minority of people go) behaves very fascist.
“behaves very fascist”
Yeah those evil fascist protestors doing violence, waving American flags, demanding strict social hierarchies, with ultra-right-wing views
/s
Antifa literally just means antifascism. If you are an antifascist you are antifa.
No. Antifa is the Antifaschistische Aktion. It’s an organization that exists, although rather loosely organized.
I don’t know about your American weird ass bullshit, but that is the actual true Antifa.
Philosopher Karl Popper described the paradox of tolerance as the seemingly counterintuitive idea that “in order to maintain a tolerant society, the society must be intolerant of intolerance.” Essentially, if a so-called tolerant society permits the existence of intolerant philosophies, it is no longer tolerant.
TL;DR punch a nazi
I too remember in the history books when all the countries banded together holding flowers politely asking the Nazis to stop invading and massacring them.
Neville Chamberlain, and his appeasement policy. It was about as effective as you’d imagine.
Hitler lost at the market place of ideas.
Fact.
Fascism is when you commit violence against fascism. Which is bad because fascism isn’t violent. Wait a minute…