Looking through historical archives and found this from 1934. California Nazis, ugh digital-collections.csun.edu/digital/collec…
But hey, doesn't that rhetoric sound familiar?
Yes indeed, they were here, hatching nasty little plots to try to get their hands on the propaganda power of Hollywood. They had lists of actors and studio owners they planned to execute digital-collections.csun.edu/digital/collec…
This guy wanted to unite all the racists. Sorry bud, you'll have to wait for Facebook for that digital-collections.csun.edu/digital/collec…
lol this is the shit I was looking for right here. Notice the gaslighting name and invocation of free speech rights. digital-collections.csun.edu/digital/collec…
Early anti-fascist organizing 😍 Hug your favorite antifa today, they're the ones who ran those fuckers right out of Los Angeles (and straight into Orange, Imperial, Riverside, and San Diego, goddamn it, but I'll finish the job my ancestors started) digital-collections.csun.edu/digital/collec…
lol it's just like my mentions digital-collections.csun.edu/digital/collec…
It's really interesting how is out there about anti-fascist movements. There was a major organized resistance throughout Hollywood for many years well before the USA entered WW2 -- in the face of a growing fascist presence within its borders. digital-collections.csun.edu/digital/collec…
Early proactive measures! digital-collections.csun.edu/digital/collec…
Eddie Cantor, antifa superagent digital-collections.csun.edu/digital/collec…
Early QAnon propaganda, 1936 digital-collections.csun.edu/digital/collec…
See? This has all happened before; ignore historical parallels at your own peril etc. Leon Lewis was a badass btw digital-collections.csun.edu/digital/collec…
Closing it out with one more example of coordinated antifascist activity. This shit works and translates well to online activity and helps with signal jamming, just saying! digital-collections.csun.edu/digital/collec…
Further reading here: hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-f…
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