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This Week in Fascism #139: Communities Hit Back Against Neo-Nazis As Trump Comes to Power; Thousands Protest Against ICE & in Solidarity with Trans People | It's Going Down
This Week in Fascism #139: Communities Hit Back Against Neo-Nazis As Trump Comes to Power; Thousands Protest Against ICE & in Solidarity with Trans People | It's Going Down
Welcome back fellow antifascists! As always, we have a lot to cover in this column, especially important analysis and roundups of antifascist action. With so much to address, let’s dive right in! Trump and the Tech-Right Take Power The second Trump administration has officially begun and less than a month in, we are already in...
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This Week in Fascism #139: Communities Hit Back Against Neo-Nazis As Trump Comes to Power; Thousands Protest Against ICE & in Solidarity with Trans People | It's Going Down
The Big Q&A With Ruth Ben-Ghiat
The Big Q&A With Ruth Ben-Ghiat
Professor Ruth Ben-Ghiat, an expert on the history of fascism and authoritarianism, answers questions from George and Team Takei.
·thinkbigpicture.substack.com·
The Big Q&A With Ruth Ben-Ghiat
How to Spot a (Potential) Fasc!st
How to Spot a (Potential) Fasc!st
Watch this video ad-free on Nebula: https://nebula.tv/videos/tom-nicholas-how-to-spot-a-potential-fascist An introduction to The Authoritarian Personality study. Timestamps: 0:00 Fascisticus Potentialicus 01:51 Introduction 05:07 Defining Fascism / Ur-Fascism 07:03 Antisemitism and Ethnocentrism 11:31 Fascism, Conservatism and Religion 16:09 The Authoritarian Personality 23:18 Conclusions This month's episode of What the Theory? is an introduction to the Authoritarian Personality study, carried out by T.W. Adorno (a key member of the "Frankfurt School" and central force in the development of Critical Theory), Else Frenkel-Brunswick, Daniel J. Levinson and R. Nevitt Sanford at the University of California, Berkeley in 1950. Following the end of World War 2, these four psychologists were interested in finding out what had motivated so many supposedly ordinary citizens in Germany (and elsewhere in Europe) to participate in the awful designs of the fascist regimes that had taken hold there. Eventually, they laid out what they called The Authoritarian Personality, a set of personality traits which they argued might make some people more susceptible to fascist ideology than others. This is what they found out... Support the channel on Patreon at http://patreon.com/tomnicholas If you've enjoyed this video and would like to see more including my What The Theory? series in which I provide some snappy introductions to key theories in the humanities as well as video essays and more then do consider subscribing. Thanks for watching! Twitter: http://twitter.com/tom_nicholas Instagram: http://instagram.com/tomnicholaswtf Patreon: http://patreon.com/tomnicholas Website: http://www.tomnicholas.com/ #Fascism #Authoritarianism #FrankfurtSchool
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How to Spot a (Potential) Fasc!st
Riots Sweep UK as Fascist Influencers Use Stabbing Attack to Fuel Racist Rampage | Truthout
Riots Sweep UK as Fascist Influencers Use Stabbing Attack to Fuel Racist Rampage | Truthout
Racist political rhetoric laid the groundwork for the far right rampage against immigrants, Muslims and Black people.
who was in fact neither Muslim nor an asylum seeker.
Within minutes of the killings, rumors began circulating online that the attacker was either a Muslim or an undocumented immigrant or both. And, in quick succession far right mobs descended
Keir Starmer, himself a former crown prosecutor, has warned the racist mobs that the full force of the law will be brought against them. Earlier today, Starmer and Cooper participated in a COBRA meeting – COBRA being the committee used to bring key government and national security players together during national emergencies – and promised to unleash a “standing army” of specialist officers against the rightwing mob.
extraordinary speed with which misinformation now circulates through social media
it turns out, is Axel Muganwa Rudakubana. He was born in Cardiff, Wales, to parents who themselves were of Rwandan origin: he isn’t an undocumented immigrant, he isn’t an asylum-seeker, he isn’t a Muslim. If Rudakubana were white, I suspect that discourse throughout the U.K. would surely be more focused on providing better mental health and social service interventions to people who are at risk of hurting themselves or others.
Instead, Britain’s homegrown fascists have opportunistically used these killings to whip up support for their racist effort to bar immigrants from the U.K. and to terrorize many of those already within the country.
This fascist rhetoric hasn’t emerged in a vacuum: for years, the Conservative government deployed inflammatory rhetoric against asylum seekers and undocumented immigrants. They made “stop the boats” a political rallying cry, and they spent a huge amount of political capital attempting to implement a deportation policy
the secondary story — that may in the long run prove to be more significant — was the rise of Nigel Farage’s hard-right Reform Party, which peeled off nearly half of the Conservative vote with its support for an immigration freeze, and its rhetoric about immigrants causing a cultural decline. For the first time, the Reform Party ended up with elected members of Parliament – five of them. More significantly, it received 14 percent support, more than 4 million votes, and came second in nearly 100 parliamentary constituencies, the vast majority of these being in seats that Labour won.
·truthout.org·
Riots Sweep UK as Fascist Influencers Use Stabbing Attack to Fuel Racist Rampage | Truthout
How the right-wing media 'hate virus' spreads | Opinion
How the right-wing media 'hate virus' spreads | Opinion
She may never be the same. This past weekend we learned about an incident from May when three American citizens were hanging out at their apartment complex swimming pool, a mom and her two children, a little girl, 3, and a boy who was 7 years old. Mom was Muslim, so she wore a modest swimsuit and a hijab. Which infuriated Elizabeth Wolf, a 42-year-...
·msn.com·
How the right-wing media 'hate virus' spreads | Opinion
NVC Woke Politics - PuddleDancer Press
NVC Woke Politics - PuddleDancer Press
How does Nonviolent Communication (NVC) address the topics of Woke Politics, Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI), Critical Race Theory (CRT), and Cancel Culture? By Alan Rafael Seid,CNVC Certified Trainer   To be clear, the above are distinct and separate topics, fields of inquiry, study, and work. In this article I attempt to describe how you... View Article
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NVC Woke Politics - PuddleDancer Press