It's not hilarious, it's the modus operandi to keep things vague so that they can hide behind apologists when called out. Like hiding behind decentralization to minimize the implicitly organized behavior of antifa. It's disingenuous and subversive. Then again I suppose subversion is the point...
>It's really amazing that the political faction obsessed with deploying a union of state and corporate power to silence their political opponents has somehow convinced itself that they're the ones fighting -- rather than constructing -- a fascist order.
> So when people like the author start claiming that Andreesen is "embracing fascism" it rings a little hollow. It's more like a trendy VC firm is chasing trends and trying to appear hip. I don't think there's much more to it than that and over-analyzing whatever manifesto they pump out this year to seem relevant is missing the point.
When someone with his power and wealth starts quoting proto-fascists among other far right-wing figures, even ridiculous ones like Ayn Rand, I think we need to start paying attention.
>Can you point me out to left leaning content that gets demonetized
This is a false equivalence. For all the flaws of Antifa and woke culture, they aren't the ones advocating violent insurrection against democratic government in the United States and the murder of Republican law makers for being traitors to the cause. Not as satire or comment, but literally.
I would contend that it is not surprising that one of these sides is encountering more problems with posting guidelines than the other.
> Correct. The word that these so called 'journalists' are looking for is more like 'authoritarian' rather than 'fascism' or 'Nazism'.
> Even by reading the article, it already suggests that the authors were spending too much time playing Nazi-related computer games in VR to bother even knowing what fascism is.
This is rich. The article's author (singular) is Jason Stanley. He's a frequent writer on the topics of propaganda and authoritarianism, and has written books on political philosophy and fascism.
> I'm not very familiar with Richard Spencer. Can show me an example where he self-describes as fascist? I couldn't find anything relevant on the wikipedia page. Ditto with breitbart being "obviously fascist".
> Milo Yiannopoulos advocates for practices that would literally kill people, in addition to advocating for pedophilia and getting very close to Nazi talking points.
You should be able to post some links illustrating this. I expect he says a lot of things that sound like that but which really aren't on closer inspection. Traditionally the political wings produce fan fiction of the other side and heavily paraphrase whatever the other side says.
Are you aware that Milo Yiannopoulos does not claim to be on the far right and they don't think he is either? His political orientation is best described troll-wing.
The very first example in the report is "river to the sea" which is arguably a dog whistle for genocide. Parts of liberal Europe have banned this slogan.
> Another was a version of Hitler’s Mein Kampf, rewritten in feminist jargon
So rewritten it's difficult to identify how it's connected to Mein Kampf.
https://thesocietypages.org/cyborgology/2018/10/09/nothing-s... - "I read through their article Our Struggle Is My Struggle: Solidarity Feminism as an Intersectional Reply to Neoliberal and Choice Feminism and then went through the chapter of Mein Kampf this article is supposed to be mimicking ... and couldn’t find a single phrase that matched."
Or from https://bleedingheartlibertarians.com/2018/10/why-the-grieva... - "However, the account of this given by the hoaxers is rather dishonest. Their re-writing of the text was so extensive that even a side-by-side comparison of the texts failed to show much similarity between them. Moreover, the part of Mein Kampf in question was making rather general claims about how to respond to (perceived) oppression. But to read the hoaxers’ account of things you’d think a Nazi diatribe had been published by a feminist journal with just a few words changed. And that’s not the case at all."
> What do 400-odd cases matter, after all?
It would be nice to put that in context, rather than make a rhetorical flourish.
That context should include the politics around UNC's decision to deny Hannah-Jones tenure.
This is literally not true.
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