So the question is a bit weird and for the sake of not sounding like a complete edgelord I will try to explain what I mean

I used to be pretty active inside the hooligan scene (lol) when I was younger. I still follow lots of football ultras accounts and the occasional hooligan thing gets posted there as well. It should be no surprise that some hooligan groups are pretty right wing or out right fascist. One of the Dutch accounts posted a Feyenoord hooligan picture in which some of their members posed in front of a ‘anti antifa’ banner, with the purpose of looking cool of course, flexing their muscles and whatnot.

I decided to call them out on it, saying it’s messed up since Rotterdam was bombed to pieces by the Nazis even. They deleted the post afterwards.

I rarely see people do this, not even leftist accounts I follow. Which made me think, should we be less afraid about calling shit like this out? To send some sort of message that we are not afraid of losers like them? Or do you think it is counter productive to do so?

I don’t mean we should start doing ‘come fight me bruh’ things, but I feel like the left is sometimes missing a link between neanderthal fighting and your average debate me bro intellectual leftist that speaks to the people.

  • SUPAVILLAIN
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    5 months ago

    studies seem to point out that social media is a key factor in radicalizing young people wrt right wing ideologies.

    I feel like this was being talked about 5 and 10 years ago about how the right wing radicalization pipeline through youtube existed and was outperforming anything the collective left was doing-- which is to say yeah, I’d be VERY INCLINED TO AGREE that in lieu of having ready-made infrastructure we could worm a counter-pipeline through, we need different methods in the same domain of conflict.