solacekames:

howlfromthecore:

solacekames:

Text: @danarel 10/28/18 

You are either 100% anti-fascist or you’re a fascist.

No more pretending there is some middle ground. There are only two sides in this fight.

There is no time for both-side-ism here. The debate isn’t even over, it never should have happened in the first place. The nazis killing Jews are from the same cloth that Sam Harris called “peaceful Nazis” when they confronted antifascists last year.

The people emboldened to build and send bombs to politicians, to kill POC in the open, are the same people who centrists said deserved a seat at the table and had a right to a platform. The same centrists who warned that the left was the problem, and allowed Nazis or organize.

I have not forgotten a single centrist who defended Nazis, fascists, added “anti-antifa” to their profiles, or gave platforms to these peddlers of death on their YouTube shows or podcasts.

You chose your side, you decided to align with murders in order to score anti-left points

You need to understand that people are surrounded by propaganda that paints a real ugly picture of antifa. From sources that people have been taught to trust. See…. This if you’re not a hundred percent with us and all of our tactics then you’re equivalent to Them" rhetoric really makes me take a step back. That means if I disagree with you on anything , I’m a target? Seems…a little…. authoritarian?

Here’s what YOU need to understand.

Let’s say fascists want to kill my family (they actually do want to kill my family, so I’m not being hyperbolic). If I have two people in front of me, a fascist who wants to kill my family and someone who claims to not be fascist, but who also says, “hey that fascist has a right to want to kill your family, and I will defend their freedom to do so,” then guess what? YOU ARE BOTH MY ENEMY. You are both a danger, the fascist and the fascist-enabler. You don’t get to wriggle out of enabling a bunch of genocidal maniacs just because Trump told you that antifa are bad hombres. As a targeted individual, I don’t have the time to ascertain your good intentions, and even if I did, I’d find out your so-called “good intentions” are really just a mess of willful ignorance, unexamined prejudice, and rejection of the principles of critical thinking.

And if people who enable fascism feel targeted… good! How the hell else are they going to change their fascist-enabling behavior? When we ask nicely, they just ignore us.

Also, keep in mind they’re only being targeted for what they believe and how they enact those beliefs: that it’s OK to enable fascists. And we’ll stop targeting them the second they change that stupid belief. In contrast, fascists don’t target people for their beliefs, they target them/us because they believe we’re not real human beings, that some aspect of who we’re born as makes us unworthy of life itself, no matter what we believe.