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:
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Replying to @fozmeadows
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.
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Replying to @fozmeadows
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.
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Replying to @fozmeadows
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."
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Replying to @fozmeadows
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 -
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Replying to @fozmeadows
- 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".
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Replying to @fozmeadows
And meanwhile you're normalising the visuals of fascist iconography, slogans, language - making the abominable feel narratively familiar.
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Replying to @fozmeadows
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.
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Replying to @fozmeadows
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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Replying to @fozmeadows
Seeing these asinine liberal "fantasies" inspired me to do exactly what you've proposed here. Wish me luck.
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