This guy REALLY be testing me on wanting to reducate rather than redact people.

  • EmmaGoldman [she/her, comrade/them]@hexbear.net
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    When the time comes, you’ll realize that there are hundreds of millions of these monsters who have completely divorced themselves from their humanity and become irredeemable.

    The mask is very much still on for most people, but this sort of gleeful evil is the mainstream opinion in Israel just as it is in the US.

    There are a hundred million Americans reading the news, following ICE raids, and excitedly feeling the very same sick sense of glee that Ben-Gvir feels when he posts things like this. Yes, every single Republican voter is this ghoulish and the moment the tides start to turn in our favour, even your grandma will prove herself to be this exact type of fascist.

    Re-education does not work on these people and every revolutionary society, every people’s front has found that to be the case. Fascism is an incurable mental condition that its sufferers can only ever double down on.

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      17 days ago

      Noooo trust me we can totally rehabilitate and reform Hitler Epstein McGenocide it’s totally responsible for leftists to let nazis off with no consequences!!!

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      This is radicalizing behavior, but don’t let yourself be radicalized towards dehumanization. Not that I disagree that some people are past point of any “re-education” or that redeeming people who have committed these crimes against humanity should be a goal in itself but a similar sort of thought process as the one you use here has lead these people down this cerebral cul-de-sac, particularly ascribing to it a psychiatric and clinical label.

      • EmmaGoldman [she/her, comrade/them]@hexbear.net
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        I do not think we need to start doming people because they’re ontologically evil or somehow diseased. A mental condition is a more permanent property than a person’s current mental state, it is not the same thing as a mental health condition. It’s a philosophical label, not a psychiatric one.

        I just think you’re going to be very, very surprised how many tens or hundreds of millions of people will choose to refuse education or redemption at every single turn. You’ll be surprised by how many of them, young and old, will become neo-fascist terrorists.

        Don’t dogmatically follow the beliefs of past leftist movements, but learn from them. Not just their victories. Both the mistakes and the unfortunate realities also hold critical lessons for us.

        “When the Sandinistas came to power 10 years ago filled with ideals and hopes for their nation and their people, they discovered a very awful thing, and it wasn’t about themselves even though they had to do it to themselves, it was about that capitalist encirclement. They discovered that they needed a secret police, they discovered that they needed a security police. Because all around them coming in from two borders and within their own society were acts of sabotage, espionage, attack, mercenary invasion and alike, and they understood that if the revolution was gonna survive they were going to have to build up instruments of state power, instruments of coercion even.” -Michael Parenti