Post #2306247

2026-03-16 10:34 UTC

@whatanerd@social.treehouse.systems A lot of people just refuse to see fascists and conservatives as anything other than naive, instead of actors with their own horrifying logic, motives and ethical framework. Which to be honest just shows more about their unexamined assumptions about "intelligence" (assumptions deeply rooted in white supremacy...), than anything else. For them it is more about making a liberal hierarchy of thought, then to engage with how the logic of fascism functions, how to take it apart, and how to destroy it... cause that would mean also having to engage with how they profit from these things. It is so frigging disheartening...

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@earthworm@kolektiva.social 2026-03-16 18:04

I think we have here several different definitions of education in the room. values are education. growing up and learning from your community is education. Learning to not kill bugs for fun, beat little siblings or set the house on fire is also education. But yes, transfer of knowledge is also education. And here I agree totally with you, that formal education without the integration of critical thinking, ethics and empathy is just producing smarter raw material that can be captured easily by fascist ideologies to (re-)produce and maintain the planet crushing machine. @auriblackcat@social.treehouse.systems @whatanerd@social.treehouse.systems

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@johnzajac@dice.camp 2026-03-21 18:11

@auriblackcat@social.treehouse.systems @whatanerd@social.treehouse.systems Well, bigotry was deliberately transformed into things like "ignorance" and "-phobia" in the 90s. In turns, this infantilizes fascism and medicalizes hate. The former effect helps people discount "ignorance" as a fault of the "uneducated hoi polloi" ("we are not fascist, because fascism requires a lack of education, therefor our enemies are uneducated"), and the latter...

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