Can’t You Read: The Home Front

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Silence is Complicity

Over the course of the past seven years, I’ve come to learn that sometimes opposing fascism is explicitly not about the bigger picture. Fascist rule can only be imposed and enforced on a society that is already prepared to accept the ideas and attitudes that drive the death cult. This in turn means that stopping the fascist creep, depends on stopping the creep of fascist ideas in our everyday lives.

In this September 3rd, 2020 journal on Can’t You Read, I talk about attacking the spread of fascist ideas, by forcing those who would share those ideas to pay an unacceptable social toll for doing so; in other words, how to deny the fascist bonfire the oxygen it desperately needs (then, and now) to continue its ascent to power. As it turns out, there is only one wrong way to fight fascism; and that is to pretend its not even there. Silence is indeed violence, even if that violence is invisible to us in our everyday lives.

“The simple truth is that fascism is a death cult with a fairly consistent track record of getting a lot of people, including its adherents, “perished.” You can’t sell a society on fascism by outright admitting you’re a fascist anymore, Hitler and the Holocaust kind of ruined that option for would be fascist dictators and violent reactionaries. Even after four years under Trump, you still can’t openly admit you’re a fascist in America and as such the reactionary right (which is to say the entire American right) is devoting millions upon millions of man hours trying to convince you that fascist ideas, eliminationism and violent right wing vigilante movements are “just American politics.”

To check it out on my Can’t You Read blog, click on the header or the image below:

The Home Front on Can’t You Read

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