TankieTanuki [he/him] to chapotraphouse • edit-21 year agoA pretty good, nuanced take on the warimagemessage-square127 fedilinkarrow-up1111file-text
arrow-up1111imageA pretty good, nuanced take on the warTankieTanuki [he/him] to chapotraphouse • edit-21 year agomessage-square127 Commentsfedilinkfile-text
minus-squareNPa [he/him]hexbear14·1 year agoI told him that I had fought in 1936 on the northwest sector of the Madrid front in the French Battalion of the XIth International Brigade. “Oh,” he said, “you were a premature anti-Fascist.” I was taken aback by the expression. How, I wondered, could anyone be a premature anti-Fascist? Could there be anything such as a premature antidote to a poison? A premature antiseptic? A premature antitoxin? A premature anti-racist? If you were not premature, what sort of anti-Fascist were you supposed to be? A punctual anti-Fascist? A timely one? link
I told him that I had fought in 1936 on the northwest sector of the Madrid front in the French Battalion of the XIth International Brigade. “Oh,” he said, “you were a premature anti-Fascist.” I was taken aback by the expression. How, I wondered, could anyone be a premature anti-Fascist? Could there be anything such as a premature antidote to a poison? A premature antiseptic? A premature antitoxin? A premature anti-racist? If you were not premature, what sort of anti-Fascist were you supposed to be? A punctual anti-Fascist? A timely one?