The Thing About FASCISTs

With all that being said, this was good:
 
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And when I say 'they hate you'
I mean, they want you dead.
They want you gone.
Even if you're white and reading this, I would bet you're not on their side.

I'd bet you don't want that for anyone.
Murderers, maybe. And even they might better serve human kind by living out their example in a cell where they might regret what they've done for the rest of their lives.

But murderers are just what FASCISTs want to be.

I've always played devil's advocate.
I've always imagined the one exception to every rule, belief, stereotype.

Sometimes the one exception makes the whole system fold.

I've decided it's okay to hate FASCISTs.
It's okay because they are hate itself.

Their greatest wish
is that you didn't exist.

What ironic good could that do for a diverse world that is trying so damn hard to love itself? To take better care of itself?

Literally healing from the past.

To love every part and piece, every skin tone, body shape, ability, sexuality, background, identity, unique story, slice of humanity - it's antithetical to indulge a group who would destroy all the others.

In fairy tales, or the ones I was told, there's a big bad. An evil. A darkness. Always overcome by Good, but necessary to define what good even means. In older tales and traditions, we need chaos. We need night. Ying and yang. Balance.

Everyone has something worth learning about them, even if it's what not to be.

When we hate FASCISTs, we aren't hating the antisocial kid who no one knows really well or who gets mad too easily, who probably has a frustrating life and difficultly trusting people. A horror movie fan who loves gore. Someone with a fetish for vampires or BDSM or who has suicidal thoughts. We aren't hating darkness. We are hating the intent to kill. Intent to physically harm you. We are stopping murder. On both an individual and a cultural level.

Whether it's a FASCIST leader, a FASCIST bro, a FASCIST cop, a FASCIST government official, a FASCIST doctor, teacher, therapist, telemarketer, artist, whatever - we shouldn't sit back and be polite and give them time. Don't give them audience. And what was built on hate can be reformed. Look at Disney. Planned Parenthood.

Everyone breathing has to eat. They have to live somewhere. That means working. Well you better not be working any fucking job with any goddamn influence over anyone else's life.

What else can we do? Give them DNA tests? Ideally, reeducate them, right? Somehow teach them that we all belong here. Teach them a history they might have never known. But how likely is it that they'll listen? How likely they'd change? Maybe the young ones, but a die hard who has preached nothing but hate for 30 years without a shred of remorse... How else do you deal with a FASCIST? Wait for them to hurt or kill someone so we have reason to put them in jail? Killing them only puts blood on our side's hands. And a beating can easily lead to accidental death. The whole point is that nobody should be dying. Nobody should be getting beaten up.

What makes them a FASCIST is their desire to physically and systematically destroy people.

In America you're free to be anything as long as that allows everyone else to be free too.

That's how it works.

And this entire post is devoid of divide and conquer theory or thoughts on how the entire situation has been manipulated because even if that's true, it's also true that there are few things more worth living for than improving the quality of life for all the different and not-so-different people around you and potentially future generations to come.

Even if our government is an illusion, it's still important that we hate FASCISTs. That we are active in our disgust for their bullshit. That we choose to hate hate. We don't let them march easily. We drown out their chants with our own. We know we are right because we are on the side of love. We are fighting for each other. For a better life today and tomorrow for everyone. For a day when we no longer have to fight - at least not amongst ourselves. Not the ways we've fought for centuries. Not with the threat of death or pain. Not over this bullshit.

Could you imagine a world where everyone went about their days, their lives, without ever worrying if they're being treated differently because of prejudice, or if they might die just like the guy they read about in the news who had the same skin tone, or if tomorrow the elected president might take all their rights and insurances away...If we fought over game of thrones theories and favorite albums instead of skin color and who is worthy of existing...Where we didn't need to waste more time trying to convince people that privilege or FASCISTs are real issues and that they should care and fight back - because, humanity.

That would be nice, wouldn't it?

May all your fights be online and may FASCISTs never win another election. May we teach our children better - even if they live in the poorest parts of the nation. Be sure a message of diversity and understanding reaches them, often, in several different ways. Teach with every possible voice. Integrate communities and let people co-exist. May our movies be diverse. May our music be diverse. May our holidays, our fashions, our slang, be diverse. May everyone see a path to their own potential in people who are respected and celebrated by society. Our laws, inclusive and genuinely fair, if we must have them at all. And may those in power be truly on the side of the people.

Of humanity.