The "Unmasking Antifa Act" is very concerning and reflects a willful misunderstanding of what "Antifa" is, but I have also been saying that the risks of fascism are not just in the streets.
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But also I think that resistance to fascism looks like generating self-sustaining communities. Or at least moving towards that. One way that fascism operates is through dependencies on the state.
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I mean the mainstream press’ fixation on street violence only feeds into anti-antifascist/ left legislation like the proposed anti-masking law. That narrow fixation won’t ever change (I mean look at historical treatment of anarchists). The centrist media game is not winnable.
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I disagree that it's not winnable, but centrist media shouldn't be the primary target. Positive media coverage is attainable, but it requires a staggering amount of work.
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The point at which centrists are praising the left, the message has been diluted/ co-opted (eg abolish ICE). I see the issue as more within the industry (editors aren’t as keen to run posi antifa stories) than a movement one (which is not to say the movement doesn’t have issues!)
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The movement doesn't operate in a vacuum. The problems with media aren't simply sidesteppable. They are part of the system that needs direct action, and the industry has an impact regardless.
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Oh of course. I definitely think activists can do things differently in relationship to the press. However I feel strongly that seeking broad approval from the centrist press isn’t a great/ urgent goal. I could be alone in that tho!
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Oh no. Approval shouldn't be the objective. Movement building should. To use "Abolish ICE" as an example, centrists appropriated it because the messaging sucked and no one had a strategy for what it meant. It was a popular slogan and a blank slate.
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So it was ripe for centrists to inject whatever meaning they wanted into it and there was no framework to prevent or correct that.
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The way I see it: antifascism only exists because there's a community need, so doing anything in the service of antifascism as such, and not centered on community needs, doesn't seem to me like it would build toward the ultimate goal of elimination fascism.
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That’s partly why I think the poor people’s campaign is so great. It’s radical organizing but it’s framed in such an agreeable way to basically everybody. I don’t think the media, no matter how friendly we get, will ever compromise their own existence to cover us (fairly).
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Yeah, dudes skull needed to be cracked. He’s lucky that is all he got.
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