Goosestepper McGee

[gfish]

[I wrote this for a Facebook post, and was pleased enough with it as a piece of writing to duplicate here.]

Regarding the video of fascist Christopher Cantwell melting down:

Watch on YouTube

1) This is pretty great viewing, particularly after seeing the Vice video which featured this gutless bully.

2) His expressions of surprise are very striking. He's actually shocked that people are mad at him! He really thought he could play weekend nazi and not be the bad guy. Behold the danger of living in an echo chamber!

3) He also can't believe how persistent his enemies are. He believed his own propaganda that the left is a bunch of pushovers. Surprise, fuckface! I find it particularly telling that he seems 100% terrified of Chelsea Manning. He forgot that she had the courage to go to prison and be branded a traitor for life to do what she thought was right -- and then to come out as a trans woman. Goosestepper McGee here will never even come close to matching that kind of moral fortitude and physical bravery, and I think maybe he's starting to realize that.

4) This is a terrible cancer that will destroy society, but there is still a window in which it can be stopped. Fascist jerkoffs like him will fold if they face real opposition. We just need to provide it.

Comments

[randomdreams]

I don't think they'll fold. However, if we manage to provide a strong-enough front, they may go back to being racist fascists in private rather than in the streets.

[gfish]

That's looks like folding to me. I can't really expect their views to change.

[ivy]

Yeah, some might (like the guy who's now a speaker at the Museum of Tolerance), but I don't think we can expect that for everyone, and it doesn't scale well to individual cases. That's one of the difficulties that I'm struggling with with the "white people, talk to your racist relatives" thread of what we should do about this movement. I have totally had those conversations. I have changed 0 peoples' minds on the topic. :/ I don't know what to do there that I haven't already done.