I was at a party with some Uni kids I knew in a big city and what made the party suck so bad was me. I was still in the alt-right pipeline and behaved like most of the time. This party was full of people with unconventional sexualities and genders (which I was too dumb to pick up on) and even though nothing "political" came up, it seemed like they knew I was on my way to fascism. I was uncomfortable, but I didn't figure out why until like a whole year later. Decided to turn around when I realized why I wasn't getting invited to stuff anymore.
It definitely takes action and time to be recognized. One of the local VVN-BdA people I know did get away from literally being a fascist (parents were aligned to Nazi orgs and send their kids into nazi summer camps) when he was 18 over the last 10-20 years and now is an antifascist with a track record. Did take some amount of time to garner trust though and quite a bit of work I guess.
How long ago (roughly) was the experience you wrote about?
Long enough for me to get the picture that none of those people will ever see anything I do as acceptible. Hell, one of them is even married to a mask-off, owns a trench knife with a swastika on it, real life Nazi, but God forbid anyone ever confront him about it.
I was at a party with some Uni kids I knew in a big city and what made the party suck so bad was me. I was still in the alt-right pipeline and behaved like
most of the time. This party was full of people with unconventional sexualities and genders (which I was too dumb to pick up on) and even though nothing "political" came up, it seemed like they knew I was on my way to fascism. I was uncomfortable, but I didn't figure out why until like a whole year later. Decided to turn around when I realized why I wasn't getting invited to stuff anymore.
Worthy self critique and reflection you did there though. I applaud you for that.
If only more local people could see that....
It definitely takes action and time to be recognized. One of the local VVN-BdA people I know did get away from literally being a fascist (parents were aligned to Nazi orgs and send their kids into nazi summer camps) when he was 18 over the last 10-20 years and now is an antifascist with a track record. Did take some amount of time to garner trust though and quite a bit of work I guess.
How long ago (roughly) was the experience you wrote about?
10 years ago soon enough.
Long enough for me to get the picture that none of those people will ever see anything I do as acceptible. Hell, one of them is even married to a mask-off, owns a trench knife with a swastika on it, real life Nazi, but God forbid anyone ever confront him about it.