The also doesn’t permit the “uninitiated” to verify the critic’s claims, and exposes the critic to (bad faith) accusations that nobody actually says those things. These assholes already constantly deny things they’ve done on live TV for the whole world to see.
Against facism, the form of argument—reasoned, and supported by evidence—is just as important as the content.
You don’t ignore it. That doesn’t work. We know this to be true. We’ve ignored the far right in this country for years now, when we should have been breaking up their networks after Oklahoma city. instead we treated McVeigh and Nichols as a one-off. We did not do that with 9/11, though, but sought to weed out the networks that made it happen (at horrific expense, though, both here and abroad - but it was treated as systemic, not individual). Some sort of reaction between these two would be better. Break up the networks but that doesn’t have to come at the expense of human rights…
We know it doesn’t. We have the proof right in front of us. Law enforcement has ignored them. While they’ve been given the space to build networks of like-minded communities national and globally. They’ve been allowed to accrue counter-cultural cache. Time to treat them as the threat that they are. We should treat them like we treat the far left, actually, and start treating the far left as… you know… part of the normal political discourse.
I just don’t even know why it matters. There is no part of fascism that is left unspoken in modern political discourse. These positions are not being kept hidden. They are being actively proselytized. Emphatically preached. Musk. Theil. Murdoch. These men rule our lives and people act like they don’t know that about themselves? They know.
This is the image they want to portray because these are their values. These are the things they say because these are the things they mean. Politicians listen. Judges listen. The world bends its ear and this what it hears. They aren’t even wrong, they are just selfish kwim? They are becoming what they need to be to get what they want out of people and they are great at it.
Ignoring it would only work anyway if they were unknown and any of us if we were in a position to de-platform them.
Yeah. I’m gonna go deplatform amazon real quick. /s