I apologise for my insult. I grievously misunderstood what you were saying, and mistook you for someone who did not care enough about the problem.
You believe that ridiculing these people actually gives them power, rather than taking it away, yes? Makes them seem less threatening? Which perhaps reduces our inclination to fight them?
I can see the merit of that argument. (If I have missed your point, please correct me.)
However, I do think ridicule has a role to play in fighting fascism.
Alone, clearly, it is not going to do the job. The form of the ridicule matters. For example, late-night hosts often express derision by pretending disbelief that someone really believes what they say, like they’re merely mistaken and can be bullied into shamefacedly correcting their own behaviour.
This is a demonstration of how those shows tend to follow the interests of centrist politics, just because it’s easier to do that when you are owned by a corporation.
However, if we call these self-entitled white tiki-torchers fools, while combining that with a frank expression of how these fools have been made loyal to fascism and cannot be simply convinced to change but must have their power taken away, it serves the purpose of maintaining our own morale.
You can see this phenomenon in the pop culture made during World War 2, most iconically in the Looney Tunes and Donald Duck propaganda cartoons. The fascist enemy is shown to be brutish, stupid, and pathetic, while the system they occupy is shown as an incredibly dangerous war machine.
If you take the OP’s shitpost in context, and if we also keep in mind that these assholes are currently winning the fight and that we cannot wait for someone else to fight them for us, it is not a bad thing.
Ah, I see!
I apologise for my insult. I grievously misunderstood what you were saying, and mistook you for someone who did not care enough about the problem.
You believe that ridiculing these people actually gives them power, rather than taking it away, yes? Makes them seem less threatening? Which perhaps reduces our inclination to fight them?
I can see the merit of that argument. (If I have missed your point, please correct me.)
However, I do think ridicule has a role to play in fighting fascism.
Alone, clearly, it is not going to do the job. The form of the ridicule matters. For example, late-night hosts often express derision by pretending disbelief that someone really believes what they say, like they’re merely mistaken and can be bullied into shamefacedly correcting their own behaviour.
This is a demonstration of how those shows tend to follow the interests of centrist politics, just because it’s easier to do that when you are owned by a corporation.
However, if we call these self-entitled white tiki-torchers fools, while combining that with a frank expression of how these fools have been made loyal to fascism and cannot be simply convinced to change but must have their power taken away, it serves the purpose of maintaining our own morale.
You can see this phenomenon in the pop culture made during World War 2, most iconically in the Looney Tunes and Donald Duck propaganda cartoons. The fascist enemy is shown to be brutish, stupid, and pathetic, while the system they occupy is shown as an incredibly dangerous war machine.
If you take the OP’s shitpost in context, and if we also keep in mind that these assholes are currently winning the fight and that we cannot wait for someone else to fight them for us, it is not a bad thing.