You wouldn’t’ve seen this if you don’t follow me on Twitter or Tumblr, but just after midnight Saturday morning, I went around posting “Happy ‘Hey Fascists, you’re not comin’ for us, we’re comin’ for you’ 2017!”<\/p>\n
That’s not a joke. Fascism and white supremacy and overt misogyny – all manifestations of the same underlying urge, really – are back on the menu, and you are not your own private Switzerland. Shit’s real, shit’s gonna get more real, and one of the real<\/em> things is that you don’t bother trying to argue with actual literal neo-Nazis and fascists and white supremacists or anybody else like that. There’s no rationality there to argue with<\/em>, so you’re only wasting your time.<\/p>\n You don’t game with ’em, either. I ran into a fuckhead neo-Nazi on Overwatch yesterday. The correct response is to go on voice and say, “You fuckin’ serious? I don’t play with Nazis. Fuck off.” Then drop out of the game. Do not play with fascists<\/em>.<\/p>\n Be that example, because exclusion works. Shame works too – not so much for them, but for people looking at what happens to them<\/em>. Hurting ’em socially, economically, that works. Bring that pain<\/em>. You don’t negotiate with mosquitoes, or bacteria, and you don’t negotiate with this crap, because they’ve all decided they want to believe this because it all it makes them feel all puffed up and studly, and science and data and reason won’t do crap<\/eM> about that.<\/p>\n And that’s the thing, right? That’s what it really is. White supremacists, misogynists – they’re the biggest, most pathetic whiny-baby clowns in the whole goddamn world. You want to talk about entitlement culture? Let’s talk these dickbags. They are literally<\/em> going out and saying that they deserve everything and you deserve nothing because – and I am quoting<\/em> one here – “[their] ancestors built this country.” Leaving aside how completely full of shit that happens to be, and all the historical revisionism necessary to believe that (see again: fuck rationality), that is literally<\/em> “I deserve<\/em> to rule over you for no fucking reason at all<\/eM>, except maybe bein’ born. It’s not talent; it’s not skill; it’s not work; it’s not creativity; it’s just boundless egomaniac me. And my sneer.”<\/p>\n So pathetic. So lazy. So entitled. And so very, very, very stupid<\/em>.<\/p>\n And if you’re thinking, “how do you argue with that?” stop, because the answer is, again, above: you don’t<\/em>. You shame it, you exclude it, you make being that big of a festering cockbasket a serious fucking liability<\/em>, and you get everybody else to do it too.<\/p>\n Because there is not one rational, reasonable, thoughtful thing to be said in defence of any<\/em> of that horseshit. Not one. And it’s been given way too much of a pass for way too goddamn long as people have wrung their hands about understanding<\/em> their needs<\/em> and figure out why<\/em> they want to fuck Those People up, and when it all comes down to it, none of that matters. They get off on hurting people: that<\/em> is the underlying motivator. It gets them all chubby<\/eM>.<\/p>\n So shut that shit down. Fascists don’t get debates; fascists get deplatformed. Fascists don’t get accommodated; fascists get fired.<\/p>\n I saw a good line on Twitter: people of the 1930s and 1940s were called the Greatest Generation because they killed fascists indiscriminately<\/em>. I like it. We’re not there yet, and I sure as hell hope we don’t get there, but the way we avoid that is to hammer this shit down yesterday<\/em>. If there is anything at all these fuckers respect, it’s a boot to the head, and I say it’s time to start kickin’.<\/p>\n Metaphorically, of course.<\/p>\n So Happy New Year 2017, everybody. This is the year to make fascists afraid again. “You think you’re comin’ for us? I got news. We’re comin’ for you.<\/eM>“<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" You wouldn’t’ve seen this if you don’t follow me on Twitter or Tumblr, but just after midnight Saturday morning, I went around posting “Happy ‘Hey Fascists, you’re not comin’ for us, we’re comin’ for you’ 2017!” That’s not a joke. 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