I just had a guy proudly unfollow me because I said mean things about Nazis.
I took a quick scan of his page and he’s an underweight, single dude that’s obsessed with guns and violence and openly and proudly a pedophile.
Damn, Nazis, you just love comforting to stereotypes don’t you?
I just realized that any Nazis reading this won’t be smart enough to parse that comment so I’ll dumb it down for you.
Nazis are only Nazis because they’re too stupid and pathetic to get anywhere in life so they blame others for their own failure and resort to fantasies of violence because they’re impotent, weak children that are desperate to be strong.
They’re also all pedophiles.
The best part about posting anti-Nazi posts is that you get to find all the Nazis following you and either they leave or you get to block them!
#yes all nazis
Okay, okay, hold on, pause.
As a Jew and a CSA survivor
It is not helpful to say things like “all Nazis are pedophiles” or “all Nazis are failures.” IT’S NOT.
Because then you run into people who are well-dressed and well-spoken, highly successful, respectful toward children, very clearly understand the concept of boundaries …
… and if all Nazis are failures and pedophiles, then those people clearly aren’t Nazis, right? Even if they have a house covered in Nazi memorabilia, even if they hang out on Stormfront, even if their bank PIN is 1488 and they send their children to a private school explicitly “to avoid all the Jews and [Black people],” they’re not Nazis.
Being a Nazi means you hate nonwhite people and call for the extermination of Jews.
Period.
You can be a Nazi and be wealthy.
You can be a Nazi and be a bestselling author.
You can be a Nazi and think pedophiles are disgusting.
(Did you know Hitler was a vegetarian because he disapproved of cruelty toward animals? True facts.)
Please stop using phrases like “all Nazis are pedophiles.” THEY DON’T HELP ANYONE AND THEY PUT AT-RISK POPULATIONS IN EVEN MORE DANGER.
Just … stop.
We have real life examples of these kinds of Nazis by the way! People like Richard Spencer and Nick Fuentes purposely put on an air of respectability in order to further promote their racist, white supremacist ideas. Gavin McInnes, leader of the Proud Boys (a blatant far right/gun rights group based in the Pacific Northwest), uses this to his advantage, despite the fact that he has shown up in interviews wearing body armor and carrying a rifle.
As ideal as it would be for all Nazis/far-right activists to fit into the impotent, manchild stereotype, they will use it to their advantage. There’s a reason why the Unite the Right protestors wore polo shirts and clean jeans and pants, why Richard Spencer wears suits in public; it’s so that people like us can’t just got them into the “infantile racist pedo” box. They’re trying to mainstream their ideas and make fascism normal again. They’ll co-opt leftist language, engage in civil debates, and make themselves appear more “woke” than the people fighting for women’s and queer equality, so that they can poach leftist supporters away from our side.
Innuendo Studios, run by the fantastic Ian Danskin, has an entire video essay series dedicated to covering what he calls “The Alt-Right Playbook.” They’re incredibly well researched, entertaining, and informative, and I’ll link a couple of his videos that I think are basically mandatory viewing for anyone looking to counter fascism in any of its forms. But he makes a very interesting point in one video (not a direct quote): “For every crowd of chanting fascists with tiki torches and Nazi pariphenalia, there is always a clean-cut philosophy type with a megaphone ready to disavow the racists while being one himself.”
We’re in a scary situation right now, not just in America but also across Europe. Liberalism (I use the term in its classical meaning, not what it has come to represent in American politics, which many just use as a synonym for communism) and its belief in innate human rights are being attacked by fascists. Both sides are fighting a philosophical, if not physical, war, and in war your opponent will do whatever he can to gain an advantage over you. While I may not be a liberal (I trend much further left politically) I recognize that fascism and fascists represent a threat to liberalism, democracy, republicanism, and everyone who isn’t white or cis or straight. We need to pull out this weed from the political soil.
Time to get some gloves on.
(All videos have content warnings in the first few seconds of the video, please make sure there isn’t anything in them that would trigger you. Make sure you’re taking care of yourselves and I hope this really long post didn’t piss you off or anything <3)
@the-peculiar-bi-tch thank u so much for this ^^