trying to think of some gift ideas. Id buy absolute batman for my nephew but he’s like 6 so probably shouldnt.

  • Doubledee [comrade/them]@hexbear.net
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    I think others have brought up the difficulty with anti fascism for kids conceptually, but I’ve got some ideas that I think lean in the right direction at least.

    Dr. Seuss has some bangers. I’m specifically thinking of the Butter Battle Book (criticizes the death drive and arms race) and Yertle the Turtle (about how hierarchy is built on the suffering of others) but there’s a bunch of his stuff that’s pretty solid.

    Obviously Ghibli movies are skeptical of militarism and authorities, I’d also add The Iron Giant, one of the only times Brad Bird used his libertarianism for good.

    The Tiffany Aching series is a disc world series aimed at a younger audience that stars a bunch of anti monarchist little fellas, not explicitly anti fascist but Pratchett is a good and empathetic writer.

    On a similar note, I’d say the Series Of Unfortunate Events books are, probably unintentionally, about how liberal institutions are not capable of dealing with someone willing to break rules and be violent. They’re a bit libbed up sometimes, kinda individualist I think but they’re well written and skeptical of authority and institutions.

    Also nobody has mentioned music but my kid likes Pete Seeger and Willi Carlisle, a lot of old worker songs are earworms and kids like to dance and sing.

    For little kids though, I think the rule of thumb is to get them quality media that has solidaristic themes and lessons about being a good neighbor and friend. You want to help them develop prosocial skills so that when they’re old enough to understand the struggle they can understand why you are on the side you have chosen to be on.

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    That is a strange request. It would be difficult to understand Fascism without looking at its violence.

    The best that I can suggest is the Sid Meier’s Civilization series, or specifically Sid Meier’s Civilization V. The player can fight against fascist civilisations, and it is a sequel rated Everyone 10+, but in a typical match an enemy is unlikely to adopt fascist policies until late in the game.

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      Also Civilization has the unfortunate problem of presenting fascism as an equally viable option with no moral judgement. If you are playing Civlization V and you’re falling behind, fascism is not only viable but it will literally fulfill the claimed promises of fascism in real life of bringing about a golden age through violent expansion and saving your culture both in the sense of preserving your civilisation from bigger threats but in the sense of creating enough cultural output to stave off others cultural hegemony…

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      25 天前

      I gave that show a rewatch a year ago and so many times it pissed me off. Just kill the fucking occupying pieces of shit

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      But NOT Legend of Korra. Especially the last book… but like, all villains in LoK are some sort of revolutionary. The first is a communist, the second a spiritualist, the third an anarchist and the last a fascist. Try to guess which one they were the most sympathetic to? 🙄

      In the end the message of the show is: being a revolutionary is bad. But the least bad kind are fascists.