Ben Shapiro appears to have simply updated the Turner Diaries for a new generation. And added a Napoleonic complex...https://twitter.com/steinkobbe/status/1358937668940402693 …
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Mark Hoofnagle Retweeted Wild Geerters
Ben Shapiro appears to have simply updated the Turner Diaries for a new generation. And added a Napoleonic complex...https://twitter.com/steinkobbe/status/1358937668940402693 …
Mark Hoofnagle added,
Lotta people dunking on it for just being laughably terrible and revealing about his insecurity, but we really should be more angry that this is clear white supremacist propaganda similar to what inspired the attack on the Capitol. This isn’t OK. He should be reviled for this.
It’s just it’s simultaneously so absurdly beyond parody we end up laughing at him and his fragile masculinity. But thats the danger. Fascists always seem ridiculous before they’re seen as dangerous.
Have you ever read The Turner Diaries? I've read part of it. it is ludicrous as well; that is, if you're not down with the belief system behind it.
Personally, my favorite parody of fascism was Norman Spinrad's "The Iron Dream." If you haven't read it, I recommend it. The premise is that Hitler didn't become Fuhrer and instead became a science-fiction writer.
"The Iron Dream" is presented as this alternate history Hitler's last novel, a post-apocalyptic adventure tale entitled "Lord of the Swastika." written by an alternate-history Adolf Hitler shortly before his death in 1953.
If you know the history of Hitler and the Third Reich, the lurid, obviously pro-fascist "novel within a novel" is hilarious with its over-the-top descriptions of fascism and Nazi-like elements that the protagonist uses as he rises from an unknown to rule a postapocalyptic kingdom
There's even a whole angle about how the hero, Feric Jagger, is a "Truman" because of the lack of mutations in his DNA after the nuclear war and the ethnic cleansing of all the mutants created by the war.
Basically, Feric Jagger's story is a parody of Hitler's life story filtered through the lens of science fiction and fantasy. Spinrad even included a fake analysis of the "novel within a novel" by a fake scholar named Homer Whipple, along with an alternate history of Hitler.
Spinrad explicitly added the fake analysis because he wanted to make it painfully obvious that the novel was satire. Even that failed. The American Nazi Party put "The Iron Dream" on its recommended reading list, calling it a "rousing adventure story."
Truly, no level of ridiculousness is too much for fascists if the elements they love are there.
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