Sylwia 🏳️‍⚧️ :nyarch: on Nostr: nprofile1q…r8ndz True... Weimar Republic even if it was really shittt was not equal ...

nprofile1qy2hwumn8ghj7un9d3shjtnddaehgu3wwp6kyqpqd7wanayy5u22tlm3myxjwwxpxf5uh3dl5p6jg90c2p2f564k7h0qrr8ndz (nprofile…8ndz) True... Weimar Republic even if it was really shittt was not equal to Nazi Germany.

quoting nevent1q…erma

You can't just say that now is the time for solidarity and hope the importance of the moment convinces people. The folks who didn't think solidarity was important before are probably only going to be more convinced they should do whatever is best for them now. When the going gets tough switching becomes a survival strategy.

To be quite honest this is the thing that has disturbed me the most about a lot of the crude anti-liberalism thats flourished over the past couple years. There's sophisticated leftist anti-liberalism in which we can acknowledge that it is preferable to live in a liberal democracy and that obviously the groups most preyed upon under liberalism are the first targets of fascism, and then there's this crude anti-liberalism that insists that fascism and liberalism are functionally identical except liberalism is solely responsible for fascism and therefor if anything it's most important to never do anything that might benefit liberals. This crude anti-liberalism has resulted in a sort of hierarchy of moral value of "solidarity", in which whatever group is determined to be most marginalized is a sort of trump card to be played against the obvious disparity in outcomes. I don't think there's good reason to trust that people who are willing to sacrifice queer kids in the US are very likely to actually engage in any kind of real, meaningful solidarity, I don't think those people are actually likely to be trustworthy when trust is worth more than gold. I think those are the kinds of people who are very likely to make excuses as to why whatever they were already going to do was the most moral choice post hoc.