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@AKDot98 @csuwildcat @EvieCorwell @hello__caitlin Sorry for the dogpile Daniel, i think people suspect bad faith in your good-faith surprise because there's so many people using this to attack Bellingcat and cry psyop (including the troll in chief). As for latinx nazis, I could go on all day, it's fascinating stuffOn twitter.com
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@AKDot98 @csuwildcat @EvieCorwell @hello__caitlin The real bad faith trap is equating a nazi tattoo or swastika with wanting a literal germany/austria-based fourth Reich to rule earth. What a swastika really expresses is admiration for the model/precedent, not the racial specifics. Nazis in South America or Africa (they exist!)Permalink On twitter.com
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@AKDot98 @csuwildcat @EvieCorwell @hello__caitlin Are more synthetic fascists than neonazis. Speaking of syncretism, nazis and nazi-idolizing fascists are strongest in Perú, NOT Argentina and Uruguay (which absorbed more literal nazis in the 40s) because of its highly synthetic racial history; Mexico is a distant 2ndPermalink On twitter.com
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@AKDot98 @csuwildcat @EvieCorwell @hello__caitlin In both nazism and racial mixing (and Chinese immigration, fun fact) among Latin American immigration. Another theory that's been floated is that high levels of violence and direct US military presence also contribute, which would explain Colombia and El Salvador, next 2 in thePermalink On twitter.com
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@AKDot98 @csuwildcat @EvieCorwell @hello__caitlin Rankings of nazi-flavored far right. Note that in places like Argentina, the far right still openly mixes "race realism" and racism and economic freedom into a platform that's essentially the same (current far right candidate idolized Hayek and hates immigration, 20% in polls...)Permalink On twitter.com
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@AKDot98 @csuwildcat @EvieCorwell @hello__caitlin But due to a different history of racial identity politics, "Pinochet did nothing wrong" is something they'll happily say into a mic while "Hitler had some good ideas" is still taboo as hell. The weakening of this last taboo is really the only difference between the 2 halves ofPermalink On twitter.com
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@AKDot98 @csuwildcat @EvieCorwell @hello__caitlin The movement, and the degree of abstraction or flexibility in the racial divisions drawn (and the degree of violence tolerated or tacitly endorsed across them).Permalink On twitter.com
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@AKDot98 @csuwildcat @EvieCorwell @hello__caitlin There's a great book of interviews with the extremely online far right, @andrewmarantz ' "Antisocial", which documents the switcheroo of publicly denouncing each other but being crucial allies under the covers exists in the US as well as abroad. It's... hard to seriously deny.Permalink On twitter.com
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@AKDot98 @csuwildcat @EvieCorwell @hello__caitlin @andrewmarantz People who study this stuff (or actively try to vaccinate people against it) get a tingling spideysense when anyone denies the natural and practical linkages between white supremacy & anti-immigration rhetoric, or violence & demonization. The 2 oldest plays in the fascist book!Permalink On twitter.com