The cult of tradition. “One has only to look at the syllabus of every fascist movement to find the major traditionalist thinkers. The Nazi gnosis was nourished by traditionalist, syncretistic, occult elements.”
Where's my pussy hat? My fluorescent blue hair is my occult element.
The rejection of modernism. “The Enlightenment, the Age of Reason, is seen as the beginning of modern depravity. In this sense Ur-Fascism can be defined as irrationalism.”
This pretty much nails a big part of my beef with the woke left.
The cult of action for action’s sake. “Action being beautiful in itself, it must be taken before, or without, any previous reflection. Thinking is a form of emasculation.”
Puts me in mind of Antifa black-shirt fascists. Also Rahm Emanuel and "never let a crisis go to waste".
Disagreement is treason. “The critical spirit makes distinctions, and to distinguish is a sign of modernism. In modern culture the scientific community praises disagreement as a way to improve knowledge.”
The woke left and cancel culture need to be reading this.
Fear of difference. “The first appeal of a fascist or prematurely fascist movement is an appeal against the intruders. Thus Ur-Fascism is racist by definition.”
ditto
Appeal to social frustration. “One of the most typical features of the historical fascism was the appeal to a frustrated middle class, a class suffering from an economic crisis or feelings of political humiliation, and frightened by the pressure of lower social groups.”
There are none so fascisticly woke as the upper middle class subburban white woman.
The obsession with a plot. “Thus at the root of the Ur-Fascist psychology there is the obsession with a plot, possibly an international one. The followers must feel besieged.”
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The enemy is both strong and weak. “By a continuous shifting of rhetorical focus, the enemies are at the same time too strong and too weak.”
Everybody is educated to become a hero. “In Ur-Fascist ideology, heroism is the norm. This cult of heroism is strictly linked with the cult of death.”
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Machismo and weaponry. “Machismo implies both disdain for women and intolerance and condemnation of nonstandard sexual habits, from chastity to homosexuality.”
Selective populism. “There is in our future a TV or Internet populism, in which the emotional response of a selected group of citizens can be presented and accepted as the Voice of the People.”
Almost the entirety of the legacy media and social media thrive on emotional response.
Ur-Fascism speaks Newspeak. “All the Nazi or Fascist schoolbooks made use of an impoverished vocabulary, and an elementary syntax, in order to limit the instruments for complex and critical reasoning.”
As in "equity" which means racism, segregation, and making the color of one's skin the ultimate moral guide.
(Score: 2, Insightful) by hemocyanin on Wednesday April 14 2021, @04:22AM
Where's my pussy hat? My fluorescent blue hair is my occult element.
This pretty much nails a big part of my beef with the woke left.
Puts me in mind of Antifa black-shirt fascists. Also Rahm Emanuel and "never let a crisis go to waste".
The woke left and cancel culture need to be reading this.
ditto
There are none so fascisticly woke as the upper middle class subburban white woman.
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Let's change the dictionary mid-sentence so we can cancel people: https://www.foxnews.com/politics/merriam-webster-changed-definition-sexual-preference-barrett-hearing [foxnews.com]
"Diversity of Tactics" "No Peace Police" "No Cameras/NoStreamers"
Gotta get those retweets and likes. Fuck the bastards even if innocent: https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/06/stop-firing-innocent/613615/ [theatlantic.com]
#resistance
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"We came, we saw, he died" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FmIRYvJQeHM [youtube.com]
Almost the entirety of the legacy media and social media thrive on emotional response.
As in "equity" which means racism, segregation, and making the color of one's skin the ultimate moral guide.