• TheSaneWriter@lemmy.thesanewriter.com
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    1 year ago

    It is absolutely an apt comparison. Genocide is a favored tool of fascists because it’s an effective way of quickly wiping away dissident civilians and destroying the mythical enemy they have in their heads. The Nazis alive today would absolutely do the Holocaust again given the ability, and fascism is too popular in too many countries for ridicule alone to work.

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      1 year ago

      Something they might do isn’t worth worrying about. They don’t have any means to actually commit genocide on an organized scale. You lose credibility when you overreact or overstate reality.

      • TheSaneWriter@lemmy.thesanewriter.com
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        1 year ago

        You’re correct, they currently don’t have enough concentrated power. But that’s the thing, if they did the genocide would begin immediately. No fascist movement came to power instantly, they built their power slowly through a mixture of government-sanctioned and illegal political activity and when they had accumulated enough power, in a quick strike decapitated their respective democratic governments. You can’t afford to be reactive here because, by the time their regime starts in earnest, it’s already too late. These ideologies need to be destroyed while they’re still fledgling, ridicule only works at the very beginning and we’re too entrenched for it.