I guess I get frustrated the online world because the face to face punching of nazis was all the rage when I was younger. I have no time for them, or their enablers.
Oh! beating up on "Nazis"is still all the rage here in the UK, but it's become something of sick joke, inasmuch as it tends to be led by comfortably -off middle class twits who have no idea what real life is like for poorer folk. And the definition of "nazi"has been extended and extended to include anyone who's poor, white and sick of being shat upon...or even (since much of the hostility moved online) poor , black and sick of being shat upon (given that usually can't tell folks'ethnicity just from their opinions, but that doesn't stop people from making facile assumptions) . Indeed , you only have to be articulate to be dismissed as "'overprivileged". Or in favour of Brexit (which seems to cover most of the working class and underclass, irrspective of ethnicity),
The underlying logic seems to be that if somebody complains about the housing crisis etc , or if they voted Brexit, then it follows that they must have swallowed all that Right Wing propaganda that tries to make scapegoats out of immigrants (and/or or the sick, the disabled, the unemployed etc.) Of course they haven't. Most working class people are not so brain dead that they can't think for themselves and identify the
genuinely overprivileged as the main source of their problems. Or come up with any number of alternative socio-political explanations But if a few are daft enough to buy the right-wing propaganda, it's hard to blame them them for that, and actually worse-than-pointless to blame them, That only antagonises them further, to the benefit of the usual divide-and-rule scenario. If there's a way of breaking out of that (essentially Nazi) scenario, that surely isn't it.
Well, that's my view anyway. and
I present it here just to make the point that there far too many different ways of defining the Nazis and -especially- the 'Nazi enablers"; and depending on which way you cut it, you can justifiably point that finger at just about anyone.I remain covinced that the pointing of fingers is the thing to be avoided. If the shat-upon (and sympathisers) could only join forces, then we would all cease to be minorities wouldn;t we? and become a force to be reckoned with. Instead, we're persuaded to join in with debating like a bunch of Victorian do-gooders about which of us really
deserves to be heard, and which of us really
deserves to have enough money to survive on, whilst all our observations are turned into straw men and weaponised against us.
(white, working class, disabled , dirt-poor, socialist female speaking here. Often mistaken for a member of the patronising classes, purely on account of being white and articulate. Really!
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Anyway, what's up you old bastards (and gophers)?
ummmm...more of the same, evidently
and, welcome back!
(I now feel able to say that sincerely
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