"Substack deserves credit for kicking off a revolution in independent publishing. But the world it helped to birth is now much bigger than its own platform. Next week we will move to a new home in that world. One where readers can feel confident their money is not going to accelerate the growth of hate movements."
#CaseyNewton, 2023
https://platformer.substack.com/p/why-platformer-is-leaving-substack
In Apartheid South Africa, Nelson Mandela was accused of leading a hate movement. Palestinian solidarity groups are accused of this now.
"Put more simply, it's possible to rigorously determine who is a terrorist if you go by the actual meaning of the word, but in practice the term is almost never applied in accordance with a strict definition."
In these post-truth days of political marketing, the same is true of other terms commonly used as vague pejoratives, including "hate group", "fascists", and even "Nazis".
Fascist and Nazi, Terrorist (definition)
@strypey #fascists #Nazis #Hitler #ACAB #Capitalism creates #war #terrorists
I think definitions of #fascist and #Nazi are clearer than that of 'terrorist' because I think I have the meaning more clearer for how and why; based on how 'those people' or groups are basically financed or financially backed from basically chains of people who are the uncaring heads of snakes of various types of extreme - and monetising or magnifying those perspectives / their politics onto others (doers ignoring or supporting that in various amounts to be call it in more or less justified ways).
Basically groups or individuals can be labelled or self-labelled fascist or Nazi and are those who are or expect:
- people to follow blind
- extreme authority
- all or nothing perspective
- workaholics / for a cause with direct dire consequences to life (even though complete apathy could be as non-human as a Nazi and at least a Nazi 'cares' for something maybe as a slight winner!)
- doing biddings and horrible acts 'like a Nazi'
- and more, full circling back to the division of people based on various politics or politics of money or separatism which almost everyone is capable of to a varied amount (I say tentatively)
especially when conditions get tough (jobs are low and it becomes this or that culture "taking our jobs" or looking for excuses not accepting or focussing on large elephant / gov in the room taking / stealing it all)
Not a complete list above, but some food for thought.
This video below should help too based on the root of not caring and financially-backed looking at people / abusing them that way... and using various levels of force / coercion that is more measurable and often more real that 'terrorist' (which is used sometime very incorrectly) and more accurate could be used or searched for if able to understand the why etc of the 'terrorist' subject . For example without conversation or choice everyone may become a terrorist of various kind from lack of choice / access to the stolen or spent public money on violence and bad circle of progress.
