I guess instead of self-reflecting about the implications of a broader, more diverse reactionary American ideology it's better just to create a new boogyman entirely where we can just assign some amount of "multicultural whiteness" to any non-white people whose views fall outside of the liberal orthodoxy.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/01/15/understand-trumps-support-we-must-think-terms-multiracial-whiteness/

  • pepe_silvia96 [he/him]
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    4 years ago

    read it and found it interesting.

    yea, there was a sham revolutionary spirit in the 2016 election(economic nationalism, america first, maga). and then there was a further degredation of that spirit when it was linked up with the interests of the capitalists. in the end, fascism is buffoonery. one has to educate themselves to find contradictions within liberal democracies, but with fascism those contradictions are exaggerated to such an extent that it becomes comedy.

    it's the inner drive of the chud that I find interesting tho. as bad as covid has been, what we're living through isn't comparable to the economic struggles in germany after Versailles. and if anything, this crisis is a perfect display of the shortcomings of capitalism. yet he chuds dont see it as such. that's why I think theres something more here(no, it's not multi-racial whiteness, although racism plays a huge role).

    nihilism induced by neo-liberalism, the confusion created by the new class of internet pundits, the acceleration of the news cycle. the reality that america has been driven by a class conscious capitalist elite from its inception and has built an ideology and vast set of institutions to defend itself from the threats of the proletarians.

    idk, but I'm gonna try to read more Zizek. he might offer some insight.