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[–] [email protected] 6 points 10 months ago (1 children)

People who are right wing support fascism. Full stop.

I very much agree with everything else you said, but I can’t grasp why you would make the extra effort to pander to them like that, it’s bizarre.

You are right, and I also agree with you, so let me just clarify... there is a difference between people who unconsciously support fascism merely because they are apolitical, and people who are very deliberately fascist, as in enthusiastic supporters of the Republican party.

Most fans of US movies are indifferent, and do not think of themselves as political beings. They think of themselves as just "ordinary." Like a fish not knowing what water is, "ordinary" for an average US citizen is about as close to fascism as a person can possibly be without enthusiastically actively waving around swastikas -- but there is still a difference between "ordinary" apolitical people like Tarantino and all of his fans who think of him as edgy, and someone actively wishing to purge the world of all non-white people. That is what I mean by "right wing" and not fascist.

I think it is important to draw that distinction because I don't like blaming apolitical people for being the victims of US mainstream cinema brainwashing.

[–] [email protected] -3 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (3 children)

Ok, so you're not talking about right wing people then (or more accurately - conservatives), you're talking about centrists and liberals (who are not left wing) (edit to add: while claiming to be "apolitical", looks like Tarantino has donated to the DNC in the past, so that tracks).

I know that's uncomfortable to hear, but it's the truth, and to those willing to sit with that discomfort and challenge their bias, I recommend taking the time to read this and this.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago

Show me a moderate Democrat in the US and I'll show you a moderate right winger in the world. From a world perspective, the US hasn't had a left leaning president in the last 30 years or more. The US lost its left at some point, and advocating for sensible policies became its new left. Outside looking in, Bernie is a centrist or at most left-of-center.

So if your reference is the full spectrum, the majority of the US population is right wing, a good portion of it radicalized fascists. Now if your reference is the severely skewed Overton window of the US, then yeah, all right wingers are fascists.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Just a side note: American fucked up definitions of words and ideologies are not "how things are called". Liberals are not non committed leftists.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 10 months ago (1 children)

you’re talking about centrists and liberals.

I suppose I am, though I think it is accurate to call centrists and liberals "right wing."

Those are both good articles, I have actually read them both before.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 10 months ago

I think it is accurate to call centrists and liberals “right wing.”

Oh yeah, I agree in principle, but practically it becomes a bit confusing, as this exchange has demonstrated lol, glad we cleared it up..

And yeah, fuck Tarantino.