Wasn’t a fascist but was maybe 30% baked into one around 2015. One day I was in my room, listening to a Sargon video, when I was stuck by a moment of clarity and thought “Jesus christ, all these people are unbelievably whiny fucking dorks who never stop complaining about shit that doesn’t matter, and also the bigotry was never actually a joke.”
Then I found CTH and never looked back. Just generally growing up and maturing helped too.
Me too. They just wouldn’t stfu about trans people
Not a fascist at any point, but in music spaces you do notice many of these pipelines. It just takes personal responsibility to find artists who reject that from their scene. Electronic music is littered with fascists but plenty of radicals too
Realizing my nation isn’t that great and the official history is a lie. Also, I grew up from puberty.
I was raised fascist and bought into it. But the inherent unfairness of capitalism can’t be hidden. My first thought was that the people who said “capitalism is the only way” weren’t wrong but just outdated, that even if capitalism had been a go of system it was obsolete. This cracked open the door to Marxism which lead to a whole transformation over time.
I share this because I think it provides us some hope: even if the fascists won their ideas would only last so long before their own children became anarchists.
I wouldn’t say I used to be far-right but at high school, I have some right-wing opinion which is mostly from YouTubers I used to watch as well as I have internalise my homophobia and ableism because I get made fun of being queer and autistic that I felt like something was wrong with me.
It was around lockdown that I graduated from high school. It made me realise of the times I tried to get validation from my classmates which I never really got. Also, Black Lives Matter was trending on TikTok which made me realise how very shallow right-wing space is with them constantly moving the goalpost and framing certain scenario a certain way to fit to their agenda.
I still hate myself for it and despite I have changed, I still beat myself over it and wish I can cut myself. Better late than never but I wish I wasn’t that desperate for validation that I think even the slight gay representation is too “on the nose”.
Don’t beat yourself up about your opinions as a high schooler, it’s an age where you are very vulnerable to outside inputs, very attached to the opinions of your family (don’t know if that’s your case at all), and barely have any life experience that can disprove a lot of these ideas in practice. You should feel proud that you managed to realize these issues with your self and fix them instead of letting them fester like so many people do.
One might very well argue that someone who came to a realization and mended their way has an even better understanding and appreciation for the new value than someone who didn’t question their upbringing, even if they always had noble values.
Don’t beat yourself over it. The fact that you came to that realisation, makes you human. You aspire to be a better person, and that’s what is important. Don’t let wrong choices direct you in life! We all make ‘em.
I feel like the Venn diagram of Lemmy users and (current or ex-) fascists has very little overlap.
Happy to be proved wrong though.
I think the ex-fascists subgroup you mentioned, addressed in this question, is actually representative of intrinsic critical thinkers whose nature overcame their upbringing. These I think are quite natural lemmings (a particularly ironic name).
I’m not happy for you to be proved wrong! Deplatforming fascists is always welcome.
Seconded, but they did say ex-fascists
Agreed, but you mentioned current ones, and I was replying to you.
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I saw a post a couple days ago defending north Korea… so there is definitely some overlap. .
You can’t just call everything you deem bad fascist, you’re taking away all the meaning from that word
Totally different species of retard, they are not fascists
Please stop using ableist language.
In the west, they teach that communism = authoritarianism and totalitarianism. They teach that no one would willingly let an elected government plan anything, and therefore we should submit to the will of random ass rich people.
OK so the current communist leaders aren’t random ass rich people? I’m pretty sure if you ranked the North Koreans by wealth, their current leader would miraculously be #1.
Never been a fascist but perhaps I can see how it could have gone?
Extreme dislike to being told what I can find funny. Any time some people try and cancel a comedian for example. Who are the people who end up defending it? If you keep following a lot of those people it may lead you down that route.
But then my entire reason for being there in the first place is based on a dislike for authoritarianism, so perhaps that is why I lost interest as they moved towards fascism.
I feel that there were a lot of people who got caught in a right wing whirlpool on YouTube just around the time before Trump was getting into his run. I know I watched some before I realized they were all hacks and the entire right wing space was a scam.
The only thing they did better was convincing people that they were the more accepting group. And yeah I guess they were, for nazis, assholes, and idiots.
Finding out that a lot of it was cultured from Epstein and his ilk is very unsurprising in hindsight.
I remember it quite a bit before Trump but yeah, and then kinda seeing it progress into more and more pro Trump stuff.
