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All Star
A thread was created asking Blacks to fight against Trump's fascism. But, what that poster failed to acknowledge was that Blacks already experience a form of fascism in the world today.
I think the simplest definition of fascism is: total control of the people by the government to the point those people, the citizens, do not and cannot acquire economic or social mobility without the government.
This is Black reality. At the bottom of every metric, and cannot really build unless approved by the government, and when approved we are stifled to a point where we merely break even, not prosper as a collective. It doesn't really matter whether there is a two party system because our fates are entirely dictated by whites which is one of the reasons why our wealth is damn near zero at this point.
Asking us to "fight against Trump because he is a fascist" paints the picture that if we only get rid of Trump, our lives will become better. That is quite dismissive of our reality and recent history imo.
I think the simplest definition of fascism is: total control of the people by the government to the point those people, the citizens, do not and cannot acquire economic or social mobility without the government.
This is Black reality. At the bottom of every metric, and cannot really build unless approved by the government, and when approved we are stifled to a point where we merely break even, not prosper as a collective. It doesn't really matter whether there is a two party system because our fates are entirely dictated by whites which is one of the reasons why our wealth is damn near zero at this point.
Asking us to "fight against Trump because he is a fascist" paints the picture that if we only get rid of Trump, our lives will become better. That is quite dismissive of our reality and recent history imo.