"He saw all his friends go off to war and fighting for #America, and he wasn’t #racist going in, but he started going in that direction and became very much of an Islamophobe."--Former white nationalist confirming @kathleen_belew's thesis. #twitterstorians theatlantic.com/politics/archi…
"We don’t currently have any hate-crime laws that apply to online activity, but photoshopping someone’s face onto an Auschwitz prisoner on Twitter isn’t so different from spray-painting a swastika in a synagogue." Dude also confirmed that de-platforming works. #AntiFascism
The crazy thing about this parallel is that it shows how making private property sacrosanct is an impediment to fighting #fascism. It also exposes the contradiction of ideas being treated as intellectual property in some cases but free, open expressions of speech on the other.
In other words, in an 'information economy' your ideas and speech are not property unless you have the resources to bribe the state into creating and enforcing your intellectual property rights. That's why your pic can be defaced by a white nationalist and you have no recourse.
Once again, you are not going to stop #racism, #fascism, #sexism, #homophobia, #transphobia, #ablism, and environmental destruction without stopping #capitalism.
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