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wizardbeard@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 days agoNo shit Sherlock. So why are we trying our best to turn them into the clowns to make a circus to go with the bread instead of talking about how to do something? Why are we helping them make things worse by just turning them into a punchline.
More so, why are we settling for such a weak ass punchline about a version of the problem that’s from multiple years ago?
This limp dicked masturbatory elitism just downplays the seriousness of the situation while stoking a futile feeling of elitism that goes nowhere. “Look, aren’t we better than these hilariously sad excuses for a cum stain? Time to go be smug and continue sitting on my ass doing nothing.”
teslekova@sh.itjust.works 4 days ago
Ah, I see!
I apologise for my insult. I grievously misunderstood what you were saying, and mistook you for someone who did not care enough about the problem.
You believe that ridiculing these people actually gives them power, rather than taking it away, yes? Makes them seem less threatening? Which perhaps reduces our inclination to fight them?
I can see the merit of that argument. (If I have missed your point, please correct me.)
However, I do think ridicule has a role to play in fighting fascism.
Alone, clearly, it is not going to do the job. The form of the ridicule matters. For example, late-night hosts often express derision by pretending disbelief that someone really believes what they say, like they’re merely mistaken and can be bullied into shamefacedly correcting their own behaviour.
This is a demonstration of how those shows tend to follow the interests of centrist politics, just because it’s easier to do that when you are owned by a corporation.
However, if we call these self-entitled white tiki-torchers fools, while combining that with a frank expression of how these fools have been made loyal to fascism and cannot be simply convinced to change but must have their power taken away, it serves the purpose of maintaining our own morale.
You can see this phenomenon in the pop culture made during World War 2, most iconically in the Looney Tunes and Donald Duck propaganda cartoons. The fascist enemy is shown to be brutish, stupid, and pathetic, while the system they occupy is shown as an incredibly dangerous war machine.
If you take the OP’s shitpost in context, and if we also keep in mind that these assholes are currently winning the fight and that we cannot wait for someone else to fight them for us, it is not a bad thing.