I wrote about how this pandemic has rapidly helped to popularise eco-fascism and how, in many ways, it has already become mainstreamhttps://www.newstatesman.com/science-tech/social-media/2020/05/coronavirus-leading-rise-eco-fascism …
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I've been thinking about the Overton window a lot lately (thanks to
@andrewmarantz's great book) and the way we lose the second awful things become acceptable to discuss. Coronavirus did this to eco-fascism overnight and it will likely only get worsehttps://www.newstatesman.com/science-tech/social-media/2020/05/coronavirus-leading-rise-eco-fascism …1 reply 3 retweets 9 likesShow this thread
This includes my original report on eco-fascism from 2018 when it was relatively unknown/mostly ethnonationalist vegans. I have a bad feeling that in 5 years we'll be able to track how watering it down + co-opting the climate change movement normalised ithttps://www.newstatesman.com/science-tech/social-media/2020/05/coronavirus-leading-rise-eco-fascism …
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