âYou will not replace us! You will not replace us!â âBlood and soil! Blood and soil!â âWhite lives matter! White lives matter!" âExcuse me. What about the Alt-Left that came charging
at the, as you say, the Alt-Right? Do they have any semblance of guilt?â âA local World War II veteran wants you
to hear and see this next story because heâs worried what he fought against so long
ago is making a comeback here in the United States.â âHe believes what happenedââ ScheiĂe! Hi. In this video, Iâm going to talk about How
to Recognize a Fascist. [80s intro music] To begin, letâs take a look at what fascism
is. Contemporary fascists share three core beliefs: 1: People of European heritage are or ought
to constitute a biological, cultural and political unity known as the white raceâsometimes
dog-whistled as âWestern cultureâ. 2: Jews are masterminding the destruction
of the white race through multiculturalism and non-white immigration, a plot that fascists
call âwhite genocideâ or âethnic replacement.â 3: The only way to save the white race is
to establish a âwhite homeland,â or âethnostate,â from which non-whites and degenerates must
be purged. Now, as Iâve argued in past videos, all
three of these beliefs are false. So what is it that's attracting people to fascism? Well, letâs take a look at a contemporary Nazi
propaganda video and see if we can figure that out. âWho are you? Iâm not talking about your name or your
occupation, Iâm talking about something bigger, something deeper. Iâm talking about your connection to a culture,
a history, a destiny. Our ancestors had a very strong sense of their
identity. They could say âIâm a Roman,â âIâm
a Saxon,â âIâm a Dane.ââ Good news, boys. You no longer have to be some schlubby fuck
sadly riding the escalator at Ikea and thinking how much you hate your job as a marketing
and communications associate, because the sun hath risen on the day wherein you take
your fatherâs claymore in hand and defend Voltaire and adorable blonde children against
black civil rights, you know, just like the Vikings did! âWeâre often told that being an American,
or a Briton, or a German, or any European nationality is about being dedicated to a collection of
abstractions and buzzwords: democracy, freedom, tolerance, multiculturalism. But a nation based on freedom is just another
place to go shopping.â So, life is basically sad, and in capitalist
society, that sadness is a sense of isolation, an anxiety that thereâs nothing more to
life than acquiring 1990s collectorâs edition Tampa Bay Buccaneers slash Slim Jim beer steins
until you die. Fortunately, thanks to Fascism, you donât
have to. Fascism promises you a part in something greater
than yourself. A homeland for your people! A sense of belonging to a tradition that stretches
back thousands of years, and as far into the futureâjust be sure to be extra proud of
the parts of your heritage that involve buying and selling other human beings as property. The most basic way to resist fascism is to
recognize its propaganda for what it is. The idea that appreciating European culture
is in some way linked to the establishing a white ethnostate is just nonsense. Your enjoyment of Beethoven or white
babies or whatever you get off to is in no way impeded by the proximity of people with
different skin colors and traditions. And it certainly does not require nation,
culture, and geographic ancestry to all become the same thing. But in order to recognize fascism you need
to do a lot more than reject the most overt propaganda. In the wake of the disastrous Alt-Right rally
in Charlottesville earlier this month, the Nazis have been driven back into the shadows. At least two of their major websites were
shut down, confederate monuments were removed all over the country, and several prominent
fascists have begun backpedaling. None of this means fascists will go away,
it just means theyâll have to be more subtle and indirect. Shortly after the Charlottesville rally, a
post titled âFixing the Alt-Rightâ appeared on /pol/, the imageboard where Millennial
Nazis talk strategy and trade pictures of Japanese nymphets. The post outlines some basic fascist strategy. âDonât get trapped in an echo chamber
where you can no longer relate to normies. Pretending that Charlottesville didnât massively
push the average white person away is really stupid. We have a chance to actually make changes
now that Trump has shifted the Overton window to the right, but we need to be smart and
make the movement appealing to the AVERAGE white person.â And the way to do that is: âDisavow all Nazi/KKK edgelord LARPers. There is no way to lose public support quicker
than going around making Nazi salutes and holding Tiki torches while chanting âJews
will not replace us.â This instantly makes the average person hate
you.â âBuild a populist movement with realistic,
incremental overt goals. Repealing the 1965 Immigration Act and replacing
it with something that both limits total immigration and prioritizes white immigration is an actual
tangible political goal.â âKeep the long-term goals covert, and donât
ever reveal your power level. Talking openly about a white ethnostate only
leads to failure and the average public turning against you, so disavow anyone who reveals
his power level. Leftists will recognize dog whistles and know
weâre crypto, but normies wonât listen to them.â So at first glance this seems like a really
silly, juvenile post that references Dragonball Z, but it actually displays a sense of realistic
pragmatism and an incremental approach to long-term goals that I wish were more common
on the left. But of course the strategy described here
isnât new. Older generations of white supremacists have
been doing this stuff for decades. When overt racism is politically unacceptable,
politicians have to use coded language in order to appeal to racists. Republican strategist Lee Atwater explained
the technique in an interview in 1981: âYou start out in 1954 by saying, âNâ.â By 1968, you can't say ânâââthat hurts
you. Backfires. So you say stuff like forced busing, states'
rights and all that stuff. You're getting so abstract now that you're
talking about cutting taxes, and all these things you're talking about are totally economic
things and a byproduct of them is that blacks get hurt worse than whites.â So if you want to recognize a fascist, you
have to know how to read subtext, and how to hear dog whistles, because 99 times out
of 100, a fascist will disavow fascism, racism, and white supremacy, at least when theyâre
talking to you, a non-fascist. Rallies with swastikas and Nazi salutes are
the exception, not the rule. Fascists are more likely to gain traction,
and are hence more dangerous, when they use subtler tactics. So for the rest of this video, Iâll be describing
the particular strategies that fascists use to code their ideas, and make them more palatable
to conservatives, centrists, and liberals. Strategy 1: Outright Denial âNever reveal your power level. Disavow anyone who reveals their power level.â This means that if someone acts like a fascist,
has fascist beliefs, repeats fascist talking points, and hangs out with other fascists,
the fact that they publicly denounce fascism should be worth absolutely nothing to you,
and shouldnât even enter into your consideration of whether theyâre a fascist. After all, âIâm not a fascistâ is exactly
what a fascist would say. Strategy 2: Euphemism â Of course Iâm not a fascist, Iâm an
alternative Euro-nationalist simply trying to preserve Western values.â Fascists constantly shift their terminology
in order to avoid the negative connotations that develop around the names of their movements whenever
people figure out what they really are. So they insist they arenât Nazis or white
supremacistsâjust âwhite nationalists,â or âAlt-Right.â But as people catch on to the fact that white
nationalists and the Alt-Right are just Nazis, theyâll shift their terminology again and
start telling you: âIâm not a white nationalist, Iâm an
identitarian.â Or whatever the next thing is. But itâs still the same bastards, theyâre
just using a different name. Theyâll also use euphemisms for core components
of their beliefs. If talking about preserving a homeland for
white people sounds too fascist, theyâll talk about preserving âWestern civilizationâ
or âWestern cultureâ instead. If the phrase âwhite genocideâ discredits
them, theyâll say â ethnic replacementâ instead. And if itâs considered hate speech to want
to purge non-white people, theyâll talk instead about purging immigrants, criminals,
rapists, and terroristsâand leave it to the audience to catch the color-coding on
their own. Strategy 3: Pedantry âItâs absurd to call me a Nazi, the German
National Socialist Party hasnât existed since 1945.â Thatâs right, and I bet heâs an isolationist
too, not an expansionist like the Nazis. Fascists use this kind of selective pedantry
to dodge derogatory labels and also just to bog you down in a petty terminological dispute. This is a good way to waste your time and
divert attention away from whatever led you to call them a Nazi in the first place. âIâm not a white supremacist, I donât
think that whites are superior to other races, I simply think we deserve a homeland
of our own, as do all peoples.â There it is again. And next heâs gonna tell us that since Asians
have the highest IQs, heâs, if anything, an Asian supremacist. And then youâll get sucked into arguing
about IQ instead of talking about the fact that the main goal of the politics he supports
is the political and social supremacy of white people over all other Americans and Europeans. In other words, white supremacy. Strategy 4: Secret Symbols Nazis have always taken an interest in occult
symbols like the Black Sun on Fritzâs ring, or like the swastika itself, but more obscure
symbols can be useful as a kind of secret handshake that lets Nazis recognize each other,
without normies taking notice. The best symbols to use for this purpose are
ones that are not generally associated with fascism, or at least have some other meaning,
such as the Othala rune or the iron cross. Better still are symbols that, until adoption
by fascists, are completely innocuous. Modern fascists have taken to using almost
arbitrary emoji as a way to wink and nod at each other, notably the frog (after pepe),
the milk, and the OK sign. So it doesnât matter what the symbols are. In fact itâs important that the symbols
constantly change, so that normies donât catch on. By the time you watch this video, they probably
wonât even be using the frog anymore. Maybe itâll be this. Or this. The only way to find out is to watch fascists
carefully and see what symbols they use to identify themselves. And, of course, another advantage of using
innocuous symbols is that when leftists try to point those symbols out, the fascist can
always say: â These gullible SJWs now think that even
the ok sign is racist. Is there anything they donât think is racist?â And the gullible centrists will be taken right
in. The poor centrists. Theyâre so worried that Antifa is going
to punch them because of their hair or their emoji. And, you know, some leftists are assholes
or idiots, so I should say, you should never assume someone is a fascist just because of
their hair or the emoji they use. These are only little pieces of a larger puzzle. But white centrists also need to understand
that the way you feel about Antifa at political ralliesâoh god what if they profile me and
attack me unfairlyâthatâs how a lot of black people feel about the police all the
time. And the fascists whose free speech you defend
so often are trying to drum up exactly the sentiments that make the police dangerous
to black people, and that make it dangerous for queer people to be themselves in public. So, I hope thatâs something you think about. Anyway, itâs not that the ok sign is inherently
racist or that anyone who uses it is racist, and in fact itâs its very innocuousness
that makes it useful as a crypto-fascist wink and nudge. But the misunderstanding about calling these
little things racist sets the stage for: Strategy 5: Camaraderie of the Accused âThe left accuses everyone of racism. They think all white people are Nazis. If itâs acceptable to attack and censor
me, theyâll come for you next.â Fascists have very effectively exploited the
general hostility toward âsocial justice warriors,â especially online. Unfortunately, not all leftists have my connoisseurâs
eye for detecting fascism, and some of them do throw the accusation at centrists or liberals. This doesnât cause centrists to become allied
with fascistsâhistory shows that happens regardlessâbut it can accelerate the process,
lending some plausibility to the fear that moderate centrists have that anti-fascists
will come after them next. Itâs tactically smart for fascists to make
the most of this situation, and use it to pump up sympathy and solidarity from centrists. Strategy 6: âIrony,â âJokes,â âSatire,â
and âMemesâ âOf course I wasnât actually being racist. It was just an edgy meme. Canât anyone take a joke anymore, or will
the Antifa fascists violently attack you over humor now too?â Hereâs a uniquely Millennial twist on the
racist dog-whistle. You shroud your sincere ideas in cartoon characters
and memes, and then when called out, you mock your accuser for being a clueless normie who
isnât in on the joke. Sometimes irony can be a safe way to explore
ideas that youâre not quite ready to own yet. Before I realized I was transgender, I used
to jump at any opportunity to crossdress âironically.â So when you see people joking about being
Nazis, they could be just joking, or they could be using irony to partially conceal
the truth. Itâs difficult to tell the difference, and
thatâs the point. âBut Kekistan is just a satire of identity
politics.â Well, itâs a hilarious satire of civil rights
movements that just happens to use a Nazi battle flag. And while it may have been popularized originally
by goddamn centrist YouTubers, who are unable or unwilling to see how helpful theyâre
being to fascists, Kekistan became the perfect pseudo-ironic pretext for, uh, identitarians,
including the ones who led the rally where an edgy shitposter hilariously memed his car
into a crowd of people. No wonder the SPLC now describes it as a hate
symbol. âPff those normie fools. Itâs just a joke.â Strategy 7: Shifting Blame âWhy doesnât the mainstream media cover
violent anti-white organizations like Black Lives Matter or Antifa?â This is essentially just a tu quoque fallacy,
especially heinous because of the equivocation between fascist violence and anti-fascist
violence, and between white nationalism and black civil rights. The implication is that activism to reduce
urban poverty or violence against black people is just the mirror image of white supremacist
ethnic cleansing. Shortly after the Charlottesville incident,
our proto-fascist president called out Antifa and the âAlt-Left,â a term fascists invented
to distract liberals and centrists, and establish the assumption that there must be some leftist
equivalent of the Alt-Right. Because if you have a word for a thing, that
thing must exist. âBoth sidesâ rhetoric is useful to fascists
because it diverts attention away from them, vilifies anti-fascists, wins sympathy from
centrists, and helps to shift the center of acceptable discourse in their direction. Strategy 8: Incrementalism âYou donât have to support a white ethnostate
to want common-sense policies about immigration. Of course I donât support violence against
the non-white people already here, but we do have a right to preserve our own boundaries and our culture, donât we?â The common thread in all fascist strategies
is deception and manipulation, often aimed at representing what is essentially an attack
on non-white people as a defense of white people and âwhite culture.â The fascistâs long-term goal is a homogenous
ethnostate, which at some point will require massive ethnic cleansing of one kind or another. But of course they wonât tell you about
that unless they think youâre also a fascist. The strategic fascist knows itâs better
to start with realistic, achievable goals, and that means focusing first on stopping
non-white immigration, something theyâll try to get youâthe centrist, conservative,
or liberalâon board with by emphasizing the danger and criminality of non-white immigrants
and refugees. If they can whip up enough racist sentiment
with that rhetoric, they can later turn that energy against the non-white people who are
already here. Strategy 9: The Free-Speech Defense âYou may not agree with what I say, but
I have just as much a right to speak and assemble as anyone else.â Much of anti-fascist strategy involves limiting
fascistâs ability to publicly recruit and intimidate, often by shutting down fascist
marches and rallies, or by pressuring platforms not to host fascists. The best way for the fascist to oppose that
strategy is to appeal to the liberal value of free speech. Nothing tugs on those classical liberal heartstrings
like a tale of woe about how unfairly silenced you are. But remember, fascists do not actually value
freedom, democracy, or diversity. They only value the race, the people, the
nation. Their long term goal is a society where thereâs
no room for anyone who isnât white, or even anyone who isnât a fascist, to exist. So you can begrudgingly concede to fascists
their constitutional freedoms, but remember: you shouldnât expect any reciprocity from
them. They do not care about âdiversity of opinionsââin
fact they actively oppose it. That kind of talking point is just a ploy
to protect fascist recruitment and intimidation, and to garner sympathy from centrists. [drone] Fascist strategies work because centrists
are usually naĂŻve about them: they donât notice dog whistles, and usually give fascists
the benefit of the doubt. Following politics with centrists can be like
watching a raunchy comedy movie with children who donât get sexual innuendo. Thereâs a whole hidden layer of meaning
that theyâre not picking up. This makes liberals, centrists, and conservatives
who are not savvy to fascist strategy easy to exploit. Time and time again, such people end up inadvertently
spreading around fascist memes and talking points without intending to or realizing it. And then they end up bewildered when leftists
who recognize the dog whistles take offense. Now you might wonder: well, if fascists disguise
themselves, and liberals inadvertently duplicate fascist memes, then isnât just about everyone
suspect? Arenât you in fact just a paranoid leftist
who thinks everyone is a Nazi? Well, thatâs what they want you to think! They benefit from the confusion and the appearance
that the left is paranoid. Iâll admit there are cases where I canât
tell if someone is genuinely Alt-Light, or if theyâre just an oblivious centrist who
picked up the talking points. Likewise, it can be impossible to tell the
difference between someone who is Alt-Light but not an outright fascist, and a fascist
whoâs concealing their power level. So in a sense, yes, I am a little bit paranoid. The other day the ACLU tweeted a picture of
an adorable blond child with the caption, âthis is the future ACLU members want,â
and for a second I was like, what the fuck? Because it has a close resemblance to a 14
words meme. But of course itâs unintentional, itâs
the ACLU. âI wanted to make sure, unlike most politicians,
that what I said was correct, not make a quick statement. The statement I made on Saturday, the first
statement, was a fine statement. But you donât make statements that direct unless
you know the facts.â Yes, I have become crazy. But this paranoia, self-doubt, and questioning
of your own perception is the psychological consequence of being constantly gaslit by
fascists pretending not to be fascists and communicating in code. And itâs the intentional consequence of
that. Gaslighting is just another tool in the fascistâs
psychological arsenal. So, how do we get better at resisting fascist
strategies? I know if youâre a centrist who has inadvertently
repeated fascist rhetoric or defended fascists, it seems like the left all thinks youâre
a Nazi and that we hate you, and I admit that I am pretty frustrated with you right nowâobviously. But my forgiveness and encouragement are wide
open to anyone who wants to get better at resisting fascism. Fascist strategies can be very subtle and
very cunning, so donât feel guilty for falling for them, just try to get better at resisting. I guess my message to liberals, centrists,
and non-fascist conservatives is this: if you care about even one person of color, or
queer person, or immigrant, stand up for that person by opposing the Alt-Right and its allies. Do not give them a platform. Do not host debates with them on your YouTube
channel. Yes, they have a constitutional right to free
speech, but they do not have a right to a megaphone, and you should not be giving them
one. I know to a lot of you it just seems like
the free marketplace of ideas, everyone expressing their ideas peacefully. But to more vulnerable people, some ideas
can be existentially dangerous, because if those ideas catch on, their lives are at stake. Now if youâre just an average person without
a big platform, then you actually can debate, and you should be debating. Argue with your friends who are getting kinda
Alt-Righty. Argue with your family, argue with your coworkers. Let them know that you donât agree. Make them listen to a different perspective. And if youâre someone whoâs gotten involved
with the Alt-Right in the last couple years and is now disillusioned to find yourself
in the midst of a dangerous hate group, you have to get out now. It is not too late. Society will forgive you. If you donât know how to leave, look up
Life After Hate, an organization founded by a former neo-Nazi that helps people get out
of hate groups. And as for all you lefties: na zdrowie! Keep up the good fight, comrades. [Star-Spangled Banner] [synthwave] [mysterious piano music]
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I feel like our society is totally not ready for the internet. The spread of misinformation and forming of toxic, violent communities seems unstoppable the way things are now. Contrapoints is great but it's sad it's sadly not enough imo.
One of my favorites from her, and very relevant to what happened in Christchurch.
Watching this may be necessary, as the right is undergoing full on damage control.
Will be super useful to detect all the euphemisms fascists will use to say how they're not like the shooter, the obviously only fascist out there
Boost to this excerpt from the 'Daily Stormer's Playbook' covered by some of the media last year:
Natalie was talking about the same thing before it was picked up by almost anyone else.
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/dec/19/neo-nazis-hatred-comedy-racist-daily-stormer
Do you think we could start teaching students in earlier public education about the use of dog whistles and how to recognize them? Maybe also more fact checking skills and media literacy.
This is the video that got me hooked on contra.
I'm still waiting for the "are we the baddies?" moment.
I mean, i have that when thinking about positions i hold and i haven't ever had to denounce a terrorist who declared i inspired him...