Yeah I think the problem with this tweet isn’t the critique of liberal notions of authoritarianism, it’s that it leads to this paradoxical state of “Someone criticizing fascism for being authoritarianism is actually themselves a fascist.” Rhetorically, it looks too similar to “anti-fascism is the real fascism.”
"Authoritarianism" doesn't mean anything in the vast majority of cases in which it is invoked. Every political discussion would be improved if we could just completely eliminate this framework and force the discussion to be on more meaningful terms. It's at the level of "woke" or "tankie" in the sense that it mostly just means "something the speaker doesn't like" with absolutely zero additional analysis.
No wait let them cook, we can use this as a bit to piss off libs
communist sailor moon is one of the legitimately good tweeters
This is true but not in a way libs will understand. The anti-authoritarians are defenders of the status quo who simply label anything that seeks to change the status quo "authoritarian". They are not to be confused with anarchists, who are not anti-authoritarian and are absolutely willing to wield authority for their goals.
It's very important to differentiate anarchists from the anti-authoritarians, a lot of people have gotten the mistaken idea that it is the same thing when it absolutely is not.
I've never met an alleged anti-authoritarian that actually resisted the authorities in their own country, let alone had a plan to defeat them. Seems like a LARP to me.
Positive duties are authoritarian and literally remind me of the worst moments humanity has ever endured.
