Tweet by Laurie Penny ✔ @PennyRed:
Stop waiting for the ‘real Nazis’ to show up. They’re here. White supremacy today doesn’t look like the organised party system of the 20th century, because it doesn’t need to. This is gig-economy fascism. Entrepreneurial white supremacy. Serving the interests of tyrants by proxy.
Fuckin’ liberals and centrists need to stop enabling nazis
How yall are going to look at gig economy and somehow make it into identity politics? Good lord.
^when you feel personally attacked but have no valid argument
Greater income disparity than pre-revolution France. Pushing of gig culture and baiting people into financial ruin with short term incentives. And all people want to do is call each other fascist and nazi and white supremacist and bicker. Can’t you see it’s a distraction that’s keeping you there? Nah, probably not.
People can be upset at wealth inequality and the raise of fascism…
It’s not even that unique of a combo, pretty much everyone I know is pissed at both situations.
Why do you think someone can only care about one?
I dont, and to my knowledge never said, that someone can only care about one. The problem is confusing cause and effect, and being unwitting pawns for the other side. Let me explain by using one of the examples in the OP, nazism:
- Assume that gig economy is caused by nazism
- Gig economy is a big problem, therefore nazism is a big problem
- By chasing nazism everywhere and aggressively trying to stamp it out wherever gig economy is seen, we will fix gig economy
And you can replace nazism with any of the other causes mentioned, white supremacy, fascism, whatever.
This reasoning pattern isnt productive though. Even if nazism is a big problem where you live, fixing it wont solve gig economy, and chasing ghosts wherever you see gig economy just leads to conflict between our side of the class war.
I mean just look at this thread. Look how many people are just calling me names! This is how entrenched the problem is.
If you want to fix fascism, fix fascism. If you want to fix gig economy, fix gig economy. But if you want to fix gig economy, don’t try to fix fascism, white supremacy, and nazism wherever you see gig economy.IT’S A METAPHOR
A significant number of people can’t see behind the literal meaning of words. Which is also why so much corpo or political speak is so effective, they almost always say “good” stuff literally but you have to see behnd those to what is actually meant.
Oh being autistic I get that, but people have already explained the literal meaning and this person just doesn’t seem to want to hear it
Have you got a point? Because one isn’t apparent.
The best I can gather is that you’re a class reductionist who just doesn’t express themselves very well?
They’re not saying “the gig economy is fascist” here, it’s a metaphor. You could argue that it’s a slightly clumsy metaphor, I guess, but suggesting that white supremacy is organized differently today than it was in the 20th century isn’t that far-fetched. The reference to gig economies is just illustrating sometime else (labor markets) that has very obviously reorganized in that same time frame.
You don’t even know what “identity politics” means, apparently.
Don’t bother with your half-cocked reply, asshole, I already blocked you and I recommend other readers do the same.
