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@strypey@mastodon.nzoss.nz  ·  activity timestamp 2 weeks ago

"The forces interested in fascist solutions to national problems are not to be found in one political party or another, or in one or another wing of any single political party.

... the genius of fascism is that any political structure can host the virus and virtually any developed country can become a suitable home. Fascism talks ideology, but it is really just marketing — marketing for power."

#ToniMorrison, 1995

https://inthesetimes.com/article/toni-morrison-peril-racism-fascism-liberation-black-women-writers

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#fascism

In These Times

Toni Morrison on Fascism and Censorship

In this reprint of "Peril" and "Racism and Fascism," Toni Morrison warns of the creative depths of fascism's reach.
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@su_liam@mas.to replied  ·  activity timestamp 2 weeks ago

@strypey “…racism may wear a new dress, buy a new pair of boots, but neither it nor its succubus twin fascism is new or can make anything new. It can only reproduce the environment that supports its own health: fear, denial and an atmosphere in which its victims have lost the will to fight.”

You can certainly see in this the connection that leads to their support for what we call “AI.” It’s like the mindchild of fascism. A dead, empty simulacrum of humanity, void of meaning.

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Strypey
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@strypey@mastodon.nzoss.nz replied  ·  activity timestamp 2 weeks ago

"It is recognizable by its need to purge, by the strategies it uses to purge, and by its terror of truly democratic agendas."

Toni Morrison, 1995

https://inthesetimes.com/article/toni-morrison-peril-racism-fascism-liberation-black-women-writers

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Strypey
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@strypey@mastodon.nzoss.nz replied  ·  activity timestamp 2 weeks ago

"It is recognizable by its determination to convert all public services to private entrepreneurship; all nonprofit organizations to profit-making ones — so that the narrow but protective chasm between governance and business disappears. It changes citizens into taxpayers — so individuals become angry at even the notion of the public good."

Toni Morrison, 1995

https://inthesetimes.com/article/toni-morrison-peril-racism-fascism-liberation-black-women-writers

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In These Times

Toni Morrison on Fascism and Censorship

In this reprint of "Peril" and "Racism and Fascism," Toni Morrison warns of the creative depths of fascism's reach.
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@strypey@mastodon.nzoss.nz replied  ·  activity timestamp 2 weeks ago

Side note:

In These Times appears to be an antifascist and anticapitalist publication;

https://inthesetimes.com/

Yet as is so often the case - even for such publications - the front page of its website provides free advertising (with logo) to 2 technofascist corporations (FarceBook and Xitter). Can't find any sign of a fediverse presence.

How do we help them understand why this works against their own values and long term interests, and fix it?

https://howtomarketagame.com/2021/11/01/dont-build-your-castle-in-other-peoples-kingdoms/

#MediaRevolution

https://howtomarketagame.com

Don’t build your castle in other people’s kingdoms

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