People who use this moment in time to express concern about ANTI-fascism are really keeping their eye on the ball, to me.
The literature and journalism and inquiry following the Holocaust, from those who survived it in particular, remains clear and unequivocal: Speak out against fascism loudly, frequently, and without hesitation, despite the social discomfort.
The line isn't "... and I said nothing, and thank God I kept quiet, because I really would have sounded hysterical, after all, nobody had been exterminated yet, and really if I condemned them, wouldn't I have become just as bad as them?"
Standing up against Nazis involves actually standing up against Nazis.
Particularly when the government is sympathetic to their cause and repeats their talking points, distributes their memes, winks toward their camp.
And bases their policies on their concerns.
Particularly when the government is sympathetic to their cause and repeats their talking points, distributes their memes, winks toward their camp.
And bases their policies on their concerns.
Fact: 1930s Germans saw fascists as controllable and those who stood against them as a more present threat to their comfortable order.
But keep on talking about the people who stand up to Nazi thugs as if they're the problem. A+ work.
Meanwhile,
But keep on talking about the people who stand up to Nazi thugs as if they're the problem. A+ work.
Meanwhile,
Forever replace the national anthem before NFL games with the reading of these two quotes. 
The response to fascism has to contemplate power.
When fascists have no representation in the halls of power, ignoring them may be appropriate.
When they have a political party to promote their ideals, it becomes dangerous.
If that party is in power, it becomes complicity.
When fascists have no representation in the halls of power, ignoring them may be appropriate.
When they have a political party to promote their ideals, it becomes dangerous.
If that party is in power, it becomes complicity.
When fascists hold power, they don't need you to be fascist in order to enjoin their cause. They don't even need you to approve. They just need you either to keep quiet; or, even better, to treat their opposition as the worse option.
That's all they need. They'll do the rest.
That's all they need. They'll do the rest.
This is what we talked about for the last 60 years. We literally talked about this my whole life and decades beforehand. How do we miss it now?
Good people also protest racist brutality from a militarized police force given impunity by a complicit justice system and an approving populace.
Good people do all sorts of things. Easy things and hard things.
Good people do all sorts of things. Easy things and hard things.
So you’re down with the black lives matter protests in places like Ferguson? Cool.
