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Yes, nazi salutes can hurt you. But nazi policies can hurt you much more.
How're people more agitated by a nazi salute than by nazi policies? I don't get it.
"Well, now it's open fascism!"
Why is closed fascism any better? The same policies are happening.
Your assignment hasn't changed: Protect the most vulnerable.
@mekkaokereke I think part of this is frustration:
"How much more obvious do they need to get before you acknowledge that these guys are fucking fascists?"
But any "news organizations" which have failed to call out these fascists clearly don't want to do so.
@mekkaokereke@hachyderm.ioHonestly, if people are still waiting for US newspapers to save them? Newspapers? Then I understand that even less.
US newspapers try to make money off the rise of fascism, gaslight people who are its targets, then instantly fold like, well, like paper when it becomes obvious that the fascism they enabled is going to win.
At no point did they offer any meaningful assistance to potential victims, or resistance to fascism. And at many times they were actively harmful to the groups trying to promote democracy, by lying about DEI, made up crime waves, immigration, Black voters, and everything in between.
People used to get mad at me for saying all this. Now it's... much more quiet.
No one is coming to save us. We have to help ourselves.
@mekkaokereke @juergen_hubert USians still believe in being saved.
They don't get it and probably won't for a few centuries.
@mekkaokereke Well, the US news media _have_ been pretty good at creating a narrative at being the indispensable "Fourth Estate" that is a guarantee for freedom and democracy - far out of proportion of what they have _actually_ done for these causes (not unlike the USA as a whole...).
But yeah, apart from the few which _have_ taken a clear stand, they are a lost cause.