{"id":3577,"date":"2021-11-27T10:15:00","date_gmt":"2021-11-27T18:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/queersatanic.com\/?p=3577"},"modified":"2021-11-27T10:15:00","modified_gmt":"2021-11-27T18:15:00","slug":"reformed-fascists-have-a-lot-more-work-to-do-than-just-showing-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qs.gehenna.ynh.fr\/?p=3577","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Reformed fascists&#8221; have a lot more work to do than just showing up"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This is a really good framing for how to treat fascists, including so-called \u201creformed fascists\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">A lot of the &quot;well actually&quot; centrist, surprised they get backlash for saying things like &quot;I&#39;d let a nazi volunteer in my soup kitchen and just throw them out when they crossed a line&quot;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;.that&#39;s already too late. Also, you&#39;ve damaged the space now and what it means<\/p>&mdash; Brandon Bradford (@BrandonLBradfor) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BrandonLBradfor\/status\/1464653265673461768?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 27, 2021<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">So often centrists, but <em>also<\/em> white \u201cunited front\u201d leftists, allocate all their empathy to the fascist because they think \u201cwhat if <em>I<\/em> had gone down that path?\u201d In so doing they reveal that, whatever their rhetoric, they think politics is a game and fascism isn\u2019t actually that bad.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;People can change.&#8221; OK. &#8220;We have to give people an off-ramp from bigotry.&#8221; Fine.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But it would be ludicrous to put a reformed spouse beater to work in a soup kitchen serving people fleeing abusive relationships. It would be cruel to put a reformed NAMBLA member to work at a summer camp.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This is so obvious, but \u201creformed fascists\u201d believe they have a right to have access to spaces with the same people they just prior wanted to eradicate, and some leftists think this is a way to build solidarity?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Come on.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote has-black-color has-white-background-color has-text-color has-background has-link-color wp-elements-c588646e87b3ff3ee93ade4164abd7df is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Twitter @BrandonLBradfor<\/strong><br>Deradicalization spaces are important, but they cannot be the same spaces built by\/for vulnerable populations to feel safe. Incels need an offramp, but it can&#8217;t be the women&#8217;s shelter.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A lot of the &#8220;well actually&#8221; centrist, surprised they get backlash for saying things like &#8220;I&#8217;d let a nazi volunteer in my soup kitchen and just throw them out when they crossed a line&#8221;\u2026\u2026\u2026.that&#8217;s already too late. Also, you&#8217;ve damaged the space now and what it means<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is a really good framing for how to treat fascists, including so-called \u201creformed fascists\u201d So often centrists, but also white \u201cunited front\u201d leftists, allocate all their empathy to the fascist because they think \u201cwhat if I had gone down that path?\u201d In so doing they reveal that, whatever their rhetoric, they think politics is&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3578,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[765,11,1159],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3577","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-deradicalization","category-memes","category-twitter"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qs.gehenna.ynh.fr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3577","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qs.gehenna.ynh.fr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qs.gehenna.ynh.fr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qs.gehenna.ynh.fr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qs.gehenna.ynh.fr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3577"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qs.gehenna.ynh.fr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3577\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qs.gehenna.ynh.fr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3577"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qs.gehenna.ynh.fr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3577"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qs.gehenna.ynh.fr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3577"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}