I’d rather not get involved in another anarchism vs. state socialism debate, but I find @Prunebutt@slrpnk.net’s attitude obnoxious. While I do question if a people’s republic is the best possible way to go, dismissing the people’s republics as ‘bourgeois’ and ‘failures’ is a crappy, oversimplified conclusion that wilfully disregards the enormous gains that the working masses made in them.

Not to mention that this paskudnyak is being needlessly hostile: I trust that you despise capitalism as much as I do, so there’d be no need for me to behave smugly or condescendingly to you just because of your anarchism scepticism and preference for the people’s republics.

Anyway, like I said I’d rather not get into an argument. I just want to tell you that I sympathize with your frustrations and we don’t have to be enemies simply because we’re socialists who have different perspectives on state machinery. We can handle our disagreements respectfully.

a fascist monarchist country

The Kingdom of Romania?

⇧ literal Holodomor denial. Denying that Stalin exterminated 70 million White capitalist men is the same thing as Holocaust denial (except it’s actually way worse; the Holocaust wasn’t THAT bad)

tl;dr

Stalin massacred at least 50 million White cishet capitalist men… and even that estimate is probably too low.

A future article about Westerbork, maybe.

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You keep missing the point. Defining racism as any racially motivated act of meanness is a useless definition because it falsely equates oppression with any reaction to said oppression. That is why I gave you an article about Theodore N. Kaufman: equating a powerless stranger who advocated sterilising the German folk with the privileged goyim who actually had the power to sterilize countless innocents is patently ridiculous. Not only is it ridiculous, but the Third Reich referred to Kaufman’s otherwise harmless and silly ranting as another excuse to oppress Jews. Do you see now how obnoxiously fastidious you sound?

Oh, so any Jew or Romani who hated White, German goyim was just as awful as her oppressors?

I was asking if Jews or humans of color hating ‘Aryans’ was racism. Do you need me to show you evidence that Jews and humans of colour existed in the German Reich?

White supremacy amongst Imperial America’s institutions is a well documented phenomenon and you’ll have a hard time finding any social scientists denying its existence. You can’t just play Mad Libs by replacing ‘white’ with a minority and expect it to work perfectly. Example:

“But whites received on average 36 percent more callbacks to interview than African-Americans with equal job qualifications, and we found no evidence that this level of discrimination had changed.”

If you tried to make fun of this by writing ‘Blacks received on average 36 percent more callbacks to interview than Whites with equal job qualifications’, most people would rightfully look at you like you had just lost your godddamned mind. The old switcheroo simply does not work here, since it requires you to forget that reality exists.

This is why I get annoyed when somebody reacts to an insult to White men with ‘omg what if u said that about joos’ or ‘omg what if u said that about blacks’. An insult to White men isn’t like an insult to Jews or Black folk. It’s more like someone insulting ‘Aryans’ in the 1930s or 1940s. If you don’t believe me, look at how the Fascists reacted to Theodore N. Kaufman.

Now, if someone insulting Whites or men bums you out for a bit then I can understand that, but the correct approach is not to scold anybody or show them the ol’ switcheroo. That isn’t going to fix the situation. It’ll probably only make things worse, if anything.

Here is a simple, analogous question to help you:

Did racism against Aryans exist in the German Reich?

I am aware.

Mount Rushmore’s sculptor admired Benito Mussolini.

I have a feeling that this topic is not going to receive many upvotes. The slice-of-life tone may be a nice break from the other content but it is too plain to impress anybody. I was scrambling to find something intriguing to share today and that was the best that I could find. I think that it would have been better off as bonus material in another topic. Oh well.

@nytimes can’t manage to photograph Ukrainian soldiers without platforming Nazi wear

Why do you want Putin to genocide millions of European people with blond hair and blue eyes?

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Fascist_fasces.svg

Just because liberals voted for the Fascists in 1924, repeatedly praised Fascism in the press, applauded the Fascists for suppressing worker demonstrations, trained dozens of Fascist cadets, elected politicians sympathetic to Fascism, repeatedly overlooked or trivialized Fascist oppression, chanted “Deutschland, Deutschland über alles!” alongside Fascists in German government chambers, suppressed militant antifascists regularly, signed a naval pact with Fascists, extended credit to Fascists, signed military alliances with the Fascists, partitioned Czechoslovakia for the Fascists, tolerated businesses that marketed products (including oil and nickel) to Fascists, became economically critical to the Axis war machine, provided bank accounts for Fascists, bailed out Axis businessmen, held more Axis POWs than Jewish refugees, collaborated with self‐identified fascists, directly incorporated former Axis intelligence into the state, started Operation Paperclip and kept the employés, started Operation Bloodstone, appointed former Axis leaders to high ranks within the NATO, accepted surviving Axis collaborators as party members, endorsed an underground network of neofascists, allow monuments to Axis collaborators, martyrize Axis collaborators, and contribute to neofascism in Ukraine, doesn’t mean that liberalism enables fascism or fascists.

Name one time that liberalism enabled fascism.

https://lemmygrad.ml/post/11237996

I thought about writing a note likening this to colonial powers despoiling indigenous populations, but I decided against it on the grounds that the similarities were too obvious. Perhaps that would have made my topic more interesting anyway, though. What do you think?

Is it just me, or are we suffering more technical difficulties than usual?

For a while I could tolerate them, but now they’re slowly killing my interest in revisiting this network; I’d rather be replaying computer games.