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on our way to fascism
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this post was submitted on 24 Aug 2024
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There is no careful use of language that can stop people from preferring hatred. Humans are machines for making the world worse, and they will continue to do so, and while they do it they will rationalise doing it, and while people get hurt (including themselves) they will blame the victims.
"It's not fascism!" they complain as minorities are scapegoated and children die. Just get used to the fact that anything that is pointed entirely towards harming people for fun and profit is going to attract a range of derogatory words, and maybe think about how to stop humans from hurting humans instead.
This sounds like fatalistic capitalist/imperialist realism.
I will wait for humans to decide to feed hungry children.
Secretary General of the United Nations, 2019: Helping 800 Million People Escape Poverty Was Greatest Such Effort in History, Says Secretary-General, on Seventieth Anniversary of China’s Founding
Agreed, actions to save the weak and oppressed should be more important, I just worry that such words like fascist could lose it's punching weight whenever someone could be truly a fascist. It wouldn't have as such a backlash for that certain target.