So apparently "what if the Nazis/Confederates won" is the new dead lesbians of "edgy" ideas whose popularity is supposedly a coincidence.https://twitter.com/cwseed/status/888934200664928256 …
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Foz Meadows Retweeted CW Seed
So apparently "what if the Nazis/Confederates won" is the new dead lesbians of "edgy" ideas whose popularity is supposedly a coincidence.https://twitter.com/cwseed/status/888934200664928256 …
Foz Meadows added,
I am very uncomfortable with white supremacist alt-reality premises trending upwards in parallel with the IRL rise of white supremacy.
In this very particular instance, no, I do not accept the logic that alt-Nazi stories are meant in backlash to the rising alt-right.
I'm trying to think how to phrase this succinctly to get my real unease across without splitting it over multiple tweets, so gimme a sec:
Racism/fascism rn is ALREADY terrifying. If u can't discuss that threat as real w/o making a setting where they already won, u don't get it.
What such stories are doing is situating resistance to racism/fascism as a FUTURE problem: one we don't need to access NOW, in OUR world.
It says, "Imagine if things were REALLY bad! THEN you'd be justified in fighting back, in that other world where the Nazis won. Not HERE."
THAT'S what's fucking bothering me. These alt-Nazi stories situate anti-fascist resistance as at best a future & at worst a FICTIONAL need -
- as though THIS ISN'T HAPPENING RIGHT NOW. AS THOUGH THE CURRENT ANTIFASCIST MOVEMENT IS A FUCKING OVERREACTING B/C SHIT "ISN'T THAT BAD".
And meanwhile you're normalising the visuals of fascist iconography, slogans, language - making the abominable feel narratively familiar.
Alt-Nazi settings aren't a "warning" about possible future evils; not right now. They're a means of distancing the reality of the present.
You want to do a morally complex story about the evils of fascism? SET IT IN THE FUCKING ACTUAL NON-ALT PRESENT, YOU COWARDS.
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