Notices by Rebecca Brückmann (historleans@historians.social), page 2

Doctor’s office. Waiting room. Two dozen people, half of them coughing and sneezing. Not one other person, including staff, is wearing a mask. I don’t even know anymore. 🤷🏽♀️

Please understand that fascism never "creeps in." It is out in the open, blaring, guns blazing, using neon signs. Yet, too many people still do not care and tell you to stop overreacting, find comfort in complacency because they'll be fine, or welcome fascism with open arms because they support it.

Again: I am not saying "fascism" lightly. Narratives of decay from former glory and a cult of sentimental traditionalism, authoritarianism, ethnic nationalism, praise of violence as a cleansing force, contempt for deliberative democracy and compromise (coded as "weakness"), revenge and punishment obsessions for perceived "enemies" and deploying state agencies to do so, chauvinism, sexism, trans- and homophobia, etc. - all here.

And sorry for this terrible sidenote but before people come for me from the right-wing gender angle and possibly neglecting cis-women's crucial roles in normalizing and policing right-wing politics and communities: yeah.

And let's not expect fascism in the 2020s to look exactly like fascism in the 1920s and 1930s. It is not only about shouty marches, torches, and masculinity-cosplaying uniforms (although there's still plenty of that, too). You can be a fascist in a suit, praising God and selective rights for your ethno-nationalist in-group.

Good morning.

Who you gon’ call?

Sometimes I wish that some people acknowledged the difference between "No one has worked on this really" and "I haven't read much about it." Especially when they try to lecture you on your own or someeone else's area of expertise and act as if it were an untouched wonderland when they're essentially columbusing. Le Sigh.

Having people vote on whether or not to grant other people full human rights is as absurd and as revolting as it gets. This is where “the tyranny of the majority” prevails every time, and why democracy in itself is not enough for justice. #AboriginalRights #Australia #LastRT

The number of people shrugging off the murder of 100s of civilians in kibbutzes & at a festival because, to them, these are dehumanized stand-ins for whatever they associate with Israel, has been terrifying. No need to preemptively mock charges of anti-Semitism. Y'all are proving it all on your own. It might be a particular context of having been socialized in a particular manner, especially politically/activism-related, in Germany, but man... some of these posts, especially in the US, are wild.

Let me just say that as someone who spent a good amount of time engaged in anti-fascist activism in Germany, seeing self-declared anti-fascists damn near praise the murder of Jewish civilians in the supposed name of radical decolonization is quite something. And when we're talking about decolonization - um... how come the French and the British Mandate almost never come up while ahistorical maps about territorial distribution make the rounds? Funny, that.

And while we're at it: have people really missed the hundreds of thousands of folks in Israel protesting the authoritarian government for months on end? Realized that there is no such thing as a united political front in Israel? That blaming every citizen for the war crimes of some officials is exactly what they criticize when it comes to Palestine? And can we stop pretending that Hamas is not an authoritarian, sexist, homophobic regime that suppresses people in Gaza itself? It is remarkable.

"Justice Natalie Hudson will be first Black chief of #Minnesota Supreme Court" (no paywall): https://strib.gift/3qza9pfzw

Wait wait wait… So, you’re actually telling me that before this one 2023 study, none of the routine menstrual hygiene products were *ever* tested with actual blood instead of water or some other, ill-defined “liquid?” And that modern medicine bases related diagnoses on them anyway? I’m telling you, gynecology continues to be a misogynistic nightmare. https://www.news-medical.net/news/20230810/Study-assesses-capacity-of-modern-menstrual-products-to-better-diagnose-heavy-menstrual-bleeding.aspx

I mean, seriously. Have you ever met a single academic talking about their research interest, really? 😂😬