Most important step–who do they reblog from? If they reblog from fascists, they’re a fascist. Look out for the following things in URLs/bios/posts. If you see it, it MIGHT be unintentional, but 95% of the time the person is a reactionary.
NOT A COMPLETE LIST. More can be found on the Anti-Defamation League’s website. Feel free to add your own.
Antisemitic Dogwhistles:
(((Triple parentheses)))–used by antisemites to identify Jewish names
“Cultural Marxists”–means Jews
“The mysterious, wealthy elites”–means Jews
“Powerful satanic pedophiles”–means Jews
“XYZ Jew or rich person is secretly a lizard/robot/alien”–hearkens to the Jews control the world narrative
Generalized statements about Israel as a major global power/influencing the US
“Controlled media”
“International bankers”
Referencing “certain people on the east coast of the US”
“New York intellectual”
“Dual loyalty”
Overt fixation on the Rothschilds/George Soros
Depictions of unlikeable people as having hooded eyelids, dark curly hair, large hooked noses
“Controlling the masses, puppet master, mastermind”
References to or depictions of the happy merchant
ZOG/Zionist Occupied Government
Nonspecific language and rhetoric often used by fascists/friends of fascists:
Cumbrain
Smoothbrain–eugenicist phrasing
Correcting for overpopulation–ecofascist rhetoric
Degenerate
Social Darwinism/survival of the fittest/natural selection
Traditional values
Symbology to double check:
Scandinavian symbology (inc. Norse runes)
American front cross
Celtic cross
Depictions of German soldiers (w/ or w/o swastika)
Imperial German flag
Iron Cross
Eagle (akin to Nazi eagle)
Pepe the Frog (for real)
Wojak (paying attention to any other symbols added to it or showing a deformed head/damaged brain)
URLs + Self-identifiers to be wary of:
Trad/traditional/traditionalist
Monarchist
Punished
Risen
Nationalist
Crucified
Aryan
Unforgiven
Patriarch
Patriot
Fallen
Chad
Egalitarian
Unrepentant
Prussia/Prussian
Liberty
Anglican
Catholicism/saints/church (yep)
Numbers to look at:
83
14 88 (together or individually)
Please reblog this because some of you put fascists on my dashboard unwittingly and I need you to Know… You need to Look…
Can I add the fact that they try very hard to discredit posts exactly like this one by calling them “paranoid” or “delusional” but what they really mean is that they genuinely thought these memes and slogans were brilliantly subtle and actually thought nobody else in the whole world was smart or observant?
“Globalist” is also another word to keep an eye out for. It originates in the idea that Jewish people have no allegiances to their country but instead to some global conspiracy. Ties back into the idea that they secretly rule the world.
[Image ID: A picture of a bee and a wasp, both labeled. Both are colored yellow and black. Facts are listed about each one in their respective columns.
Bee:
Cute and fuzzy, like a friend
Make honey
Come in pretty colors with different occupations (blue orchard bee, carpenter bee)
Pollinators!
Freeloaders who will come build hives in the walls of your house
Communicate with dancing
According to all known laws of aviatin, honey bees can fly up to 15 mph
Like sweet things
Over 20,000 species–not just honeybees!
Wasp:
Cool and sleek, like a motorcycle
Prey on pests
Come in pretty, iridescent colors (ruby tailed wasp)
Will try to mooch off your drinks (so check your cans!)
Pollinators!
Leave you paper nests that you can sell to collectors
Communicate with smells
Like sweet things
Over 30,000 species–not just [kind I hate]
At the very bottom, in smaller text, is the URL bug-maniac.tumblr.com. /End ID]
NO ANTI-WASP SENTIMENTS ON THIS POST
I love showing people this wasp. Behold the beauty of the wasp!
Additionally: “it isn’t queerbaiting if you got ~queer vibes~ from a pair of real life costars/band members/content creatora/etc. and they insist they’re just friends”
Fascism is a specific kind of bad thing, requiring specific kinds of strategy to counteract, rather than a swear word. Something can be extremely bad but not fascist. For example most of the big historical crimes of colonialism were carried out by people it would make no sense to call fascist, in fact sometimes by proponents of democracy.
it rly is weird how theres this culture in progressive spaces where like you can be as mean, as CRUEL even, as you want as long as youre not being explicitly bigoted towards any marginalized group of people and still be seen as a really good person with good morals who nobody is allowed to have beef with bc theyve never done anything racist or homophobic
this culture enables actual abuse. ive seen progressives engage in gaslighting, guilt-tripping, stalking, harassment, witch hunts, death threats, rape threats, and suicide baiting. these abusers are protected by the idea that marginalized people cannot be abusive and that any criticism of the behavior is “problematic” or tone-policing. the behavior likely emerged as a reaction to tone-policing, respectability politics and moderate liberalism, swinging the pendulum to the opposite extreme of aggressive callout culture and groupthink. i also think many progressives are marginalized + disempowered in mainstream society and cope by replicating the same patterns of abuse in a microcosm where they have clout
Addendum: you can also be horribly bigoted toward other marginalized people, so long as you use the ‘correct’ language and attack a marginalized group that is already a popular target of lateral / intra-community aggression (or, as I like to call it ‘I’m too chickenshit to do anything that requires effort or sacrifice, so my activism is screaming at other marginalized people and blaming them for all my issues’).
This is very visible on Tumblr, with a rotating cadre of people (bisexuals, pansexuals, ace/aro people, nonbinary people, intersex people, trans people who don’t subscribe to transmedicalist stances) being the revolving Targets du Jour for some truly vicious hate and smear campaigns, by individuals *who should know better* (but don’t, because they enjoy the thrill of soft, easily reachable targets upon which to vent the rage caused by non-marginalized society). Fundamentally, this is what happens when one’s activism revolves around seeking VENGEANCE (and a completely misplaced one at that!) rather than justice.
Good post but I wanna add another example: people are literally allowed and even encouraged to be as mean-spirited and cruel towards people who exhibit autistic traits, so long as they never actually use the word “autistic.”
hate to say it but the key to having things solved by big company customer service is you just gotta stretch the truth with them. or straight up lie. actually. was on the phone for 3 hours because they sent something to the wrong address and spoke to 10 different departments trying to figure out if anyone could go fucking get it and they’re like “uhhh but can you go get it” bitch I’m 8 hours away by car, I don’t live in the house where you sent it.
took a moment to think, called back and was just like. Hi. My package was stolen off the porch!!! Saw the cunt steal it myself!! Anyway can you please send new things to this other address for free since that’s your policy for stolen goods thank you~☆ ! and it was immediately solved.
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It is wild what kind of shit people will report to you in a security uniform. “Hey, that guy in the wheelchair? He doesn’t need it, he was walking outside earlier” like ??? Okay?? First off you don’t know his medical status, second what the fuck am I supposed to do with that information? Take it away from him?? It’s still his fucking wheelchair, he brought it from home
like I don’t have any physical disabilities that I’m aware of so stop me if I’m not in my lane but I feel like even if a dude is fully able-bodied, if he owns a mobility aid and he wants to use it then unless he’s swinging it around wracking toddlers with it then it’s really none of my damn business
Also?? “Hey there’s a junkie in the bathroom” ??? First off I saw them go in and I know for a fact that person has cerebral palsy, and also, are they actively using drugs?? Are they in medical distress?? No?? Then let them pissoh my God would you rather they shit on the street
and actually, another thing, because fuck it, but did you know?? “Security” means “safety”?? If nobody is using drugs inside the building and nobody is hurt or being hurt or bothering anyone or fucking in the lobby ar yodeling into the intercom or fucking, I don’t know, supergluing the toilet seats up and running off with the furniture, then what precisely are you expecting me to do about it? I’m not not the goddamn Social Norm Enforcer. If you’re wearing clothes and leaving people alone and you aren’t stroking out or freebasing coke with your non-service animal then I honestly do not give a fuck. “There’s a man in a dress in the women’s room” Okay and are they watching you poop? “I don’t think that’s a real service dog” is it humping someone? “That girl smells like weed can you get her out of here” Weed’s been legal for like five years get with the goddamn program. She probably works here. Do what you came here for and go hoooooome
“social norm enforcer” is exactly what is expected
