Everyone here has already stated the US has already and continues to commit genocide, which is true, but I’d like to point out that it is happening more explicitly to the majority of people than it has before.
We all know that the right has been urging for the purging of minorities for a very long time, but most people didn’t know that. Nowadays, with people like Matt Walsh becoming more well known has started to make the unnoticeable spark of alt-right extremism grow into a forest fire. And because that spark went unnoticed for so long and kept growing and growing without a glance, people have become used to the inferno around them. Like the frog and boiling water analogy.
I mentioned Matt Walsh specifically because he was the one neo-Nazi that explicitly stated the Club Q shooting was justified. Other conservative commentators, even the ones who work with him like Ben Shapiro, didn’t out right state the shooting was good in their views, but did toe the line of saying right wing think tanks were not at fault for any hate crimes someone in their audience commits. But we know that isn’t true as they have stoked the flames of violence for decades; calling queer people groomers, pedophiles, and mentally ill; claiming non-white immigrants are rapists and drug-dealers.
We even have Kanye palling around with actual white supremacist Nick Fuentes, making him a lot more visible to the average person as before he was essentially blacklisted from most social media. When Ye and Fuentes were on Info Wars and Tim Pool’s podcast, whenever either host gave the slightest pushback to the antisemitic remarks made by either Ye or Fuentes, their audiences came out in swaths completely mask off against any support for Jewish people.
We saw the rise of the alt-right as far back as Gamergate and anti-SJW atheist YouTube, and it never actually ended. The difference between then and now is that these people remained almost permanently online, never really reaching the masses at large. But because they’ve been at it for so long and essentially ruined a portion of the young population (millennials and GenZ) these ideas have been able to spread outside YouTube comments, Reddit, and 4Chan. These ideas have not been thoroughly and well combated so they were able to reach beyond the barrier unscathed. Sure, there were leftist on YouTube making counter videos and such, but considering the algorithm favours right wing content, no 3 hour video essay that took four months to make on a ten minute Ben Shapiro video would ever stop people from falling into the pipeline.
Fox News and the like were always very very bad, but they’ve clearly gotten worse and worse as the years go on. I mean, look at the actual politicians currently sitting and/or running for office; so many campaign commercials of politicians holding guns alongside the idea of groomers in schools and the sanctity of girls sports. Canada has the same problems, we literally have a premier who is an actual Q-anoner.
In conclusion, while the genocide has been going on for a long time, it’s become a lot more noticeable and palatable for those that never gave it a second glance.
many US states had actual bounties for the scalps of indigenous people. the federal government hired mercenaries to wholesale slaughter entire villages. the eradication of the buffalo was a deliberately strategic terrorist attack to eliminate a critical resource for plains tribes and nations. even if this wasn’t livestreamed on facebook, the op eds and articles of newspapers were absolutely dominated with xenophobic, eurocentric violent languge demanding the eradication of the “savages”…
and also ya chattel slavery was a thing
i think although how we look at state violence and how it is conducted is definitely different now, we really shouldn’t be downplaying the historical settler colonial genociding and enslavement the US is literally founded on by saying fascism is more noticeable now. it’s different, with different margins and peripheries.
I don’t mean to downplay the history at all! It is different because so many people nowadays tends to brush off past atrocities because they happened x amount of years ago and therefore don’t affect what happens now.
How many times have we witnessed someone bringing up how the history of slavery and/or residential schools still affect our society in the present which then almost always results with people getting incredibly defensive because “the past is the past, get over it”.
That’s what I meant by unnoticeable; a lot people brushed it off, treating History like a one and done thing.
They’re using girl’s sports as a way to attack trans kids. Proposing genital inspections and such to effectively erase trans kids from ever existing. They have also been pushing the grooming narrative to imply trans adults and drag-queens are a danger and must be combated. It’s that messaging that stokes violence.
Nope. We like to play it off as if we’re the wholesome equivalent to the US but that’s only because our problems are much less noticeable due to our loud southern neighbours.
The conservatives running both Alberta and Ontario and the eastern islands are purposefully running healthcare into the ground; Alberta has always had personal beef with the feds that’s why the current non-democratically voted premier is pushing for independence; disability benefits country wide are garbage and the feds keep pushing back a new bill for disability aid; the northern territories are essentially forgotten; Indigenous Peoples don’t have clean water; police brutality; The national embarrassment that was the convoy, police treated them much kinder than Indigenous protestors defending the land; the whole works.
I don’t like to say we’re the 51st state or America 2: electric boogaloo since the Canadian State has committed atrocities of its own free will; contradictory to a comment I made about Canada not being sovereign but that’s only on foreign conflicts as we seem to follow the US wherever they start beef.
Canada is mostly the same just a little less bad, for example they are imperialist, but not as much as they are a client state, and not the top imperialist.
Everyone here has already stated the US has already and continues to commit genocide, which is true, but I’d like to point out that it is happening more explicitly to the majority of people than it has before.
We all know that the right has been urging for the purging of minorities for a very long time, but most people didn’t know that. Nowadays, with people like Matt Walsh becoming more well known has started to make the unnoticeable spark of alt-right extremism grow into a forest fire. And because that spark went unnoticed for so long and kept growing and growing without a glance, people have become used to the inferno around them. Like the frog and boiling water analogy.
I mentioned Matt Walsh specifically because he was the one neo-Nazi that explicitly stated the Club Q shooting was justified. Other conservative commentators, even the ones who work with him like Ben Shapiro, didn’t out right state the shooting was good in their views, but did toe the line of saying right wing think tanks were not at fault for any hate crimes someone in their audience commits. But we know that isn’t true as they have stoked the flames of violence for decades; calling queer people groomers, pedophiles, and mentally ill; claiming non-white immigrants are rapists and drug-dealers.
We even have Kanye palling around with actual white supremacist Nick Fuentes, making him a lot more visible to the average person as before he was essentially blacklisted from most social media. When Ye and Fuentes were on Info Wars and Tim Pool’s podcast, whenever either host gave the slightest pushback to the antisemitic remarks made by either Ye or Fuentes, their audiences came out in swaths completely mask off against any support for Jewish people.
We saw the rise of the alt-right as far back as Gamergate and anti-SJW atheist YouTube, and it never actually ended. The difference between then and now is that these people remained almost permanently online, never really reaching the masses at large. But because they’ve been at it for so long and essentially ruined a portion of the young population (millennials and GenZ) these ideas have been able to spread outside YouTube comments, Reddit, and 4Chan. These ideas have not been thoroughly and well combated so they were able to reach beyond the barrier unscathed. Sure, there were leftist on YouTube making counter videos and such, but considering the algorithm favours right wing content, no 3 hour video essay that took four months to make on a ten minute Ben Shapiro video would ever stop people from falling into the pipeline.
Fox News and the like were always very very bad, but they’ve clearly gotten worse and worse as the years go on. I mean, look at the actual politicians currently sitting and/or running for office; so many campaign commercials of politicians holding guns alongside the idea of groomers in schools and the sanctity of girls sports. Canada has the same problems, we literally have a premier who is an actual Q-anoner.
In conclusion, while the genocide has been going on for a long time, it’s become a lot more noticeable and palatable for those that never gave it a second glance.
many US states had actual bounties for the scalps of indigenous people. the federal government hired mercenaries to wholesale slaughter entire villages. the eradication of the buffalo was a deliberately strategic terrorist attack to eliminate a critical resource for plains tribes and nations. even if this wasn’t livestreamed on facebook, the op eds and articles of newspapers were absolutely dominated with xenophobic, eurocentric violent languge demanding the eradication of the “savages”…
and also ya chattel slavery was a thing
i think although how we look at state violence and how it is conducted is definitely different now, we really shouldn’t be downplaying the historical settler colonial genociding and enslavement the US is literally founded on by saying fascism is more noticeable now. it’s different, with different margins and peripheries.
I don’t mean to downplay the history at all! It is different because so many people nowadays tends to brush off past atrocities because they happened x amount of years ago and therefore don’t affect what happens now.
How many times have we witnessed someone bringing up how the history of slavery and/or residential schools still affect our society in the present which then almost always results with people getting incredibly defensive because “the past is the past, get over it”.
That’s what I meant by unnoticeable; a lot people brushed it off, treating History like a one and done thing.
In what sense?
Rightoids think transfems are ruining women’s sports
They’re using girl’s sports as a way to attack trans kids. Proposing genital inspections and such to effectively erase trans kids from ever existing. They have also been pushing the grooming narrative to imply trans adults and drag-queens are a danger and must be combated. It’s that messaging that stokes violence.
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Wait cans a has mask off fascist thought Canada was less conservative than America on domestic issues
Nope. We like to play it off as if we’re the wholesome equivalent to the US but that’s only because our problems are much less noticeable due to our loud southern neighbours.
The conservatives running both Alberta and Ontario and the eastern islands are purposefully running healthcare into the ground; Alberta has always had personal beef with the feds that’s why the current non-democratically voted premier is pushing for independence; disability benefits country wide are garbage and the feds keep pushing back a new bill for disability aid; the northern territories are essentially forgotten; Indigenous Peoples don’t have clean water; police brutality; The national embarrassment that was the convoy, police treated them much kinder than Indigenous protestors defending the land; the whole works.
I don’t like to say we’re the 51st state or America 2: electric boogaloo since the Canadian State has committed atrocities of its own free will; contradictory to a comment I made about Canada not being sovereign but that’s only on foreign conflicts as we seem to follow the US wherever they start beef.
Anyway, thanks for reading my TED talk.
Canada is mostly the same just a little less bad, for example they are imperialist, but not as much as they are a client state, and not the top imperialist.