Fuck Fascists
But I'm Not Fascist
You can't really be “Meh, not bovered” when it comes to topics such as fascism.
If you aren't anti-fascist then you're allowing fascists the freedom to move and once they've stomped all over the people you don't care about then they'll stomp on you. Hell, they'll even stomp on each other once they've run out of others to stomp on because it's not about them hating someone else it's about them finding someone else to blame for their own inadequacies and it's about feeling like they have power over others. It's about making people subservient to them. It's about them finding their niche in their little pyramid of power.
There's this scale, and you sit somewhere on it.
[] Fascist [] Fascist apologist [] Moderate [] Anti-Fascist
If you're anywhere on that scale other than Anti-Fascist then you are enabling fascists.
Antifa isn't some organisation, it's anyone who doesn't support or enable fascism.
Antifa is anyone who's ever stood up against fascists or against fascism taking hold anywhere.
I'd like to think I'm anti-fascist, but I'm not always. Not all the time. Sometimes I accidentally find myself in the moderate camp. When I do find myself in the moderate camp I try to push myself firmly back in to the anti-fascist camp because that's where I want to be.
Fascists don't take power, they're given it. They're given it by the silence of moderates who give some weight to the arguments of fascist apologists.
An apologist will use arguments of patriotism, and pride in people like “you” to try and make you feel bad about not supporting them or not giving them space to air their views.
But you already know what you should be proud of, you already know what is part of true patriotism.
Being anti-fascist!
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