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I never seen so much fury in the grafitti wars as the nazis have re: #LinaE. Where normal (toothless, widely discredited as innofensive) antifa symbology is ignored, Lina's name gets overwritten angrily with base misogynist threats; in one wall I've observed, someone actually broke the wall rather than let it stand.

Lina was singled retroactively as a "leader" of an autonomous scene without leaders and explicitly picked to be made an example of, no doubt due to her gender. In doing so, the State inadvertently created a bogeywoman. The idea of a young pretty white girl bashing nazi heads with hammers bothers them to no end. They whisper her name on Twitter with hate and paranoia, afraid that she represents the start of a left which fights with more than slogans, of antifaschistischen that, for a change, do in fact aktion.

Lina doesn't represent anything she's a living woman with her own life, dreams, inner complexity, severely punished for trying to protect her community and standing up to the worst. But the bogeywoman Lina, the Lina of whispers, is there living in their heads. We should encourage nazis to think that yes, any random girl can become a Lina, yes it's a trend now. And what better argument than the truth?

#wirSindAlleLina 🔨🔨🔨