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WERNERPRISE° — Thomas Werner (wernerprise@mastodon.bits-und-baeume.org)'s status on Thursday, 13-Mar-2025 22:24:03 JST WERNERPRISE° — Thomas Werner
- Paul Cantrell
I have rarely seen a characterisation as apt as this one:
“Fascism is a fire. Its fuel is the othering of minority groups; its oxygen is fear.”
Found in this post https://hachyderm.io/@inthehands/114100015971649318 by Paul Cantrell (⁠@inthehands⁠).
#Fascism #Authoritarianism
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  Paul Cantrell (@inthehands@hachyderm.io)
  
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  Something that makes fascism a particularly pernicious form of authoritarianism is that it doesn’t just need the population crushed and subservient; it needs to •keep actively destroying• whole subsets of the population in order to stay alive. Fascism is a fire. Its fuel is the othering of minority groups; its oxygen is fear. It will keep finding — creating, if necessary — more and more “others,” without limit. Unless you cut off that oxygen or that fuel, it will keep on burning until there’s nobody left.

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