This is like the exact opposite.
No it’s not. You get called a fascist for deadnaming transpeople.
The boy who cried wolf is a story where someone repeatedly makes incorrect warnings that the community acts on until they stop believing him. This is like the exact opposite. The left has repeatedly and accurately warned that a specific political movement is fascist and been ignored the entire time. The term was not “overused to the point of meaninglessness” people just dismissed the warning without thinking cause they didn’t understand the word and couldn’t be fucked to learn or listen
whereyaaat@lemmings.world 3 weeks ago
Storm@slrpnk.net 3 weeks ago
In real life? Or on twitter? This really just sounds like something that would be on a Facebook or TicToc cringe compilation
MacNCheezus@lemmy.today 3 weeks ago
Hindsight is 20/20. The boy in the story was ultimately correct too, wasn’t he? The problem was that the townspeople didn’t believe the earlier warnings because they seemed exaggerated and blown out of proportion.
kahdbrixk@feddit.org 3 weeks ago
They actually believed the early warnings, that’s why they rushed to his rescue. but they were not exaggerated, they were lies. There were no wolves, he only wanted the attention.
This is not what happened here with the word “fascist” or “Nazi”. These people were always fascists, but really intelligent ones so they knew how to gaslight anyone into thinking they weren’t. Maybe sometimes they didn’t know it till the end, but that doesn’t make them less fascist.
So if you wanted to use an analogy, maybe you would say the boy in the story was attacked multiple times by wolves dressed like sheep. He cried for help and people rushed to his rescue. But the people always were really disappointed in him, cause there were never wolves, only sheep. And in the end everybody gets eaten, because the so called sheep actually were wolves.
I mean don’t get me wrong, I know what you tried to say, but your analogy was technically wrong.
MacNCheezus@lemmy.today 3 weeks ago
IDK man, do you think the story would have gone any differently if the kid HAD actually seen the wolf each time, but he always disappeared by the time the townsfolk arrived?
And it’s not like people DIDN’T help IRL – after Trump’s first term, enough of his voters were dissatisfied enough with his performance that they voted for Biden instead. And everyone else in a position of power, from his own vice president, who refused to go through with Trump’s plan not to certify the vote, to all the judges presiding over the various voter fraud cases, all did their parts to ensure that he wouldn’t get a second term.
But then Democrats kept up their witch hunt long after he had already stood down and given up all the election lawsuits, and even went so far as to mobilize the FBI and the DOJ in order to nail him on some legal technicalities, simply to ensure that he would never be president again. THAT’s when people started getting tired of the constant cries about Trump being a fascist, because weaponizing the state against your political enemies is pretty fascist in its own right, and if you can excuse that as long as your side is doing it, then fascism has already won.
What they SHOULD have done is try to win people over with better policies and a return to sanity, but they utterly failed at that. Biden was extremely unpopular, and so was Kamala, and it’s really not that surprising people ended up voting for the wolf instead, because the alternative seemed just as bad (or perhaps even worse). After all, what is the point of defeating fascism if in the process, you become a fascist yourself?
Quexotic@infosec.pub 3 weeks ago
So, neither of you are wrong. It was used correctly and people are numb to it.
Since they didn’t see stormtroopers at their doors, they figured there’s no real danger. They didn’t see that one group losing rights meant that they didn’t have rights either.
The regime is doing a good job of not terrifying their base and at the same time keeping them brainwashed and inflicting harm on the various outgroups.
What you’re seeing here, I think, is two echo chambers conflicting.
faythofdragons@slrpnk.net 3 weeks ago
This is one of the areas that made me realize I was to the left of liberals. Too many people telling me to calm down, it won’t affect me, I’m a white woman, stop being dramatic. Like, bitch, I was raised in a red state, I know that being white won’t protect me when they come after women. Just like how being white and male won’t protect you when they come for the lower class.
Quexotic@infosec.pub 3 weeks ago
Dude I feel you it doesn’t take much to be left of the liberals in this country either cuz they’re just just conservativism light!
faythofdragons@slrpnk.net 3 weeks ago
No kidding. I was raised by Tea Partiers, and moving left really needs to be made easier. I’m pretty sure the only reason I made it is because I’m privileged enough to be literate, and that’s exactly why the right has been axing public education since before I was born.