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@GoadGatsby TRUTH FIRE THREAD: As a Genocide scholar who researches and tracks White Supremacy with 20+ years behind me let me point out that the quote in the photo IS ABSOLUTE FALSE BULLPUCKY but Id expect nothing less from the Riech who loves to confound truth by confusing folks
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@GoadGatsby about just what is and isn't true so let's start with this:

"Nazism is a form of fascism, with disdain for liberal democracy and the parliamentary system. It incorporates fervent antisemitism, anti-communism, scientific racism, and the use of eugenics into its creed."

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@GoadGatsby Fascism is a system of government led by a dictator who typically rules by forcefully and often violently suppressing opposition and criticism, controlling all industry and commerce, and promoting nationalism and often racism.

As an ideology, fascism typically centers around
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@GoadGatsby extreme nationalism and an opposition to democracy and liberalism.

Nazism is described as one type of fascism. Both fascism and Nazism reject democracy and liberalism as ideologies, and instead embrace the concept of a nationalist state.

Fascism as an ideology
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@GoadGatsby focuses on the state itself.

However, fascist leaders typically gain support by appealing to people’s nationalism and racism, especially by promoting suspicion or hatred of people that they label as foreigners or otherwise cast as illegitimate
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@GoadGatsby citizens—as Hitler did with the Jews in Germany.

Such leaders often reinforce these themes among their followers with rallies & mass parades (developing what’s some folks call a cult of personality, which I'll look into because fascism and racism exist without leadership). 

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@GoadGatsby Nazis of the past just as today embrace such concepts as eugenics (which discouraged, for example, “reproduction by persons having genetic defects or presumed to have inheritable
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@GoadGatsby undesirable traits”) and scientific racism to further their views. Nazism views the state as a means to perpetuate these racist views.

SO IN THE TIMES WE ARE IN: Today's anti-fascism is about fighting, through direct action, racists & genocidaires wherever they can be found.
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@GoadGatsby In the US Anti-Racist Action was formed in 1988 on the basis that anti-racism and anti-fascism are one and the same.

More recently across the US autonomous groups using the 1930s German ANTIFA logo of an RFB raised fist & the slogan "No Pasaran" have emerged in California,

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@GoadGatsby Portland, Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Los Angeles, Milwaukee, New York etc to fight the rise in hate speech, combat hate crimes and stand by and between African-Americans, LGBTQIA and BIPOC people, and the fascistic that target them.

Although accusations have been leveled at
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@GoadGatsby Antifa for turning recent protests violent, little evidence exists that those affiliated with the anti-fascist cause have ever been behind any violence.

smithsonianmag.com/history/brief-…

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