"Trumpism is what a specifically American, twenty-first century version of fascism looks like.

[thedefiant604@canada.masto.host]

@wdlindsy

It's seeping into Canada, too. The Conservative Party of Canada is echoing more and more Trumpism, and conservative voters are more and more like MAGAts.

It's getting scary in North America. Actually, around the world, thanks in part to Stephen Harper's ironically named International Democratic Union, pushing far-right agendas globally.

[pattykimura@beige.party]

@wdlindsy This means you and me, well-meaning people. You don't have to confront the bully, but you MUST boldly and publicly stand WITH the person WHILE they are being bullied and not silently abandon them to abuse alone, and not wait until it's safe for you to offer support - that's not allyship, that's self-serving self-justifying cowardice and collusion, imo. If we are in this together, act like it.

[piousunyn@universeodon.com]

@wdlindsy Cogent accurate view on Trumps atrocities. Trump attacking the MSN, seems to be whining more than anything else. Though any media who is left of Trump can be a target, which means for sure the NYT is safe for now.

[wdlindsy@toad.social]

@Piousunyn Yes, that wounds right to me.

[wdlindsy@toad.social]

@pattykimura Yes, I think that's Wendell Griffen's point in a nutshell.

[wdlindsy@toad.social]

@TheDefiant604 Yes, I hear alarming reports from my classmates (we studied together in Toronto) who live in western Canada. And you're right that this is a global push, to establish the hard right in as many places as possible.

[jpanzer@mastodon.social]

@wdlindsy yes , and I hope that Harris’ new strategy will help focus mainstream media a bit on impending fascism, or at least compel them to give it a mention.

John Panzer (@[email protected])

Excellent. Force the press to cover what Trump actually says. You can only do horse race stories? Well, here’s one! Cover it! https://mastodon.online/@mastodonmigration/113316239641013219

Mastodon (mastodon.social)

[wdjorth@mastodon.online]

@wdlindsy Fascists are narcissistic sociopaths. Trump is this as much as any previous fascist.

[wdlindsy@toad.social]

@wdjorth Well-noted and well-stated.

[wdlindsy@toad.social]

@jpanzer Thank you for the good statement you make in your linked feed. I agree.

[pattykimura@beige.party]

@wdlindsy Sadly, I've experienced direct and unrelenting racial targeting while good progressive white people stood shocked and fearful saying and doing nothing, then coming up afterward, once the racist left, to commend me for my bravery in confronting racism alone. I thought "I wasn't alone, this was in public, and every single one of you self-identified "anti-racists" who witnessed it all stood perfectly still and silent and did nothing in the shelter of your shining white privilege."

Good thing I still believe in hope & change. But for gods sake people, Do Something.

[mastodonmigration@mastodon.online]

@pattykimura @wdlindsy

Well, seems the least that can be done, the very least, is to boost this superb post.

Thanks for your strength and optimism, and may we all do better in standing up for you, and for each other.

[wdlindsy@toad.social]

"Harris has connected Trump’s essential weakness of character with his authoritarian impulses, his fondness for dictators, and his disregard for the Constitution. You get these threats with Trump precisely because he is a such a hollowed-out shell of a human. It’s a powerful reminder that fascism is a refuge for the weak and insecure, an argument that defuses the fear that Trump seeks to instill."

~ David Kurtz

#Trump #JDVance #fascism #PoliticsofHate #immigrants
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Kamala Harris Ratchets Up Her Attacks On Donald Trump’s Fascism

INSIDE: Donald Trump ... Elon Musk ... Colin Allred

(morningmemo.talkingpointsmemo.com)

[wdlindsy@toad.social]

Chris Hayes says that General Mark Milley is right when he warns that Trump is a "fascist to the core," because "Donald Trump is running a straightforward fascist campaign at this point. It is becoming harder to ignore as threats of violence and racism become an increasingly central feature of his rhetoric in his rallies."

#Trump #JDVance #fascism #PoliticsofHate #immigrants #violence
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[duval@todon.eu]

@wdlindsy If this is what they state publicly, what is the inner circle agenda? They'll find ways to spend that military budget and decrease the world population through war and poverty, the 1984 method.

[wdlindsy@toad.social]

@duval That's an excellent question to ask, isn't it?

[wdlindsy@toad.social]

@pattykimura I'm deeply sorry for what you've experienced. I'm a bit confused that you're addressing me personally as if I witnessed attacks on you and did nothing. But you're responding to commentary from Wendell Griffen, an African-American leader in my community who has for years stood up for those attacked by bigots, and has paid a price for doing so. I wouldn't conclude that either he or I has done nothing or is doing nothing.

[pattykimura@beige.party]

@wdlindsy Hmm. Curious you felt defensive about my comment or felt the need to defend Mr Griffen who would immediately identify with my comments as a targeted person who has witnessed privileged inaction by silent bystanders. It's the work. It also reflects the social sciences studies on the bystander effect on prejudice.

I cannot compare the personal violence or threats made to me directly by avowed gun flashing KKK, Nazis (including jumping in a ditch to escape a car full of racist young men trying to run us down, being hit, shoved, spit on, threatened, etc), and garden variety racists to the violence endured by my brother Mr Griffen, but we've both been targets for just walking on the street. My post was to point out the need for those whose white privilege allows them to remain silent, to understand that talk without action is another variant of racist privilege, not much different than the guy who spit in my face and called me a Chink and told me to go back where I came from.

To tell you the truth, I expected empathy not defensiveness from you, my brother. I follow you and boost you because I find you a kindred ally, and what you post as a critical act of the necessary and the good.

As a person who faces intersectional prejudice and hate even within my own diverse (POC, lgbtq, women, elderly) communities, I know we, myself included, all harbor biases even as we are also victimized by bias. My critique of the failure and hypocrisy of good (white) people is particularly intense at this moment as Trump rallies those who would destroy us all, and the majority of white people continue to vote for hate, even as they do so unchallenged by their white friends and family.

If you took umbrage, okay, I hear you; my truth may not be yours. And if you feel you have led an anti-racist life without failure, you're doing better than me. I still have to find courage every day, because I am given no other choice.

[wdlindsy@toad.social]

@pattykimura If I misunderstood your statements, then I'm sorry to habe done so. When your first response in this thread repeated the word "you" four times, I assumed — wrongly? — that you were directly addressing me, as you spoke of waiting until it's safe to offer support, called that self-justifying cowardice and collusion, and then said, "If we are in this together, act like it." I truly don't understand whom you're addressing, then. If not me and my friend Wendell, then whom?
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[wdlindsy@toad.social]

@pattykimura I truly don't understand how what Wendell Griffen wrote provoked the response that you wrote — and am trying to understand. I'm certainly sorry at the hostility you've endured. My own experiences with atrocious homophobic injustice have long made me intent on standing with anyone being attacked and marginalized for reasons of race, gender, economic status, ethnic background, sexual orientation.
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