This is another one of those funny tweets that also would not be out of place from a white supremacist twitter account
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Replying to @PlzBeSensible @davidgerard and
Yes, and all the combatants in WWII were "like the Nazis" in the sense of having rifles and firing them, which is why they were all morally inferior to people who simply surrendered to the Nazis
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Replying to @arthur_affect @davidgerard and
The Nazis were bad because they were xenophobic towards people who were peaceful towards them. They made up stories about how terrible their enemies were to justify their behavior. It's on all of us to be careful & make sure we don't fall into the same trap.
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Replying to @PlzBeSensible @arthur_affect and
There's this particularly annoying thing that you ratcultists keep doing, which is trying to invent facially neutral ways to describe evil behavior. But the thing is, EVIL BEHAVIOR ISN'T FACIALLY NEUTRAL.
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Replying to @iridienne @arthur_affect and
The Nazis were bad because they were violent and xenophobic toward PEOPLE OF OTHER ETHNICITIES and DISABLED PEOPLE and LGBT PEOPLE. They made up stories about how terrible THE JEWS and THE ROMA and DISABLED PEOPLE and TRANS PEOPLE were to justify their behavior.
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Replying to @iridienne @arthur_affect and
Generalizing from the particular here doesn't actually illuminate some greater truth; rather, it elides the entire history of WHY those groups, WHY those stories, WHY that particular exercise of power and violence rather than some other.
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Replying to @iridienne @PlzBeSensible and
That's the origin of the paradox that "fascism is just radicalized liberalism" That the *motive* of liberalism, the *desire* behind it was to maintain an oppressive status quo under the veneer of civil society "This is how society naturally is, when we all follow the rules"
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Replying to @arthur_affect @iridienne and
When that order falls apart and the rules stop working on behalf of the people they were intended to protect, the elites rapidly abandon the forms of liberalism - nonviolence, civil discourse, rule of law - specifically to maintain the function
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Replying to @arthur_affect @iridienne and
Fascists themselves *self-identify* as "extremists against extremism" We must "grasp the nettle", commit atrocities, to prevent fundamental social change To protect the women and children at home and maintain their cozy safe bubble
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Replying to @arthur_affect @iridienne and
Haven't you kinda made an extended case for "extremism against extremism" in this thread? Like, in a different subthread, someone was saying that centrists should've supported commies against Hitler. Agree or disagree, that seems like an "extremists against extremism" argument
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No, I am making a case for first-order extremism Extremism is good, maintaining a stable status quo is bad
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Replying to @arthur_affect @PlzBeSensible and
I mean, it depends on the status quo, but certainly all of the currently existing ones are bad.
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