Literally any mention of some supposed ‘western civilization’ or ‘western culture’. Like just say the 14 words already, cause we all know that’s what you believe in. Fucking coward

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    in Europe its mostly “I don’t understand why the workers have to strike every week” and being just overly annoyed about strikes even when it doesn’t disturb their day

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      Ya, why is that exactly? The “humanity, fuck yeah” stuff I remember loving when I was a young 4chan dweeb, but at some point it started to make me uncomfortable and I’m not sure why. I figured it was just the cringe of that trope being overplayed in reddit writing prompt suggestions, but there definitely could be something else there, related to in-groups or maybe the victimization makes it appeal to fascists. Idk lol.

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    All of these come from the same guy:

    “I don’t think our black coworkers are people, they don’t have souls.”

    “I’m eastern orthodox but only online, I can’t go to the orthodox churches here because they’re full of slavs.”

    “I’m not voting for either party because neither one is going to protect our people.”

    “I’m collecting these guns so i can protect myself and my family from all the minorities in the city when society collapses.”

    “You should read Hitler, he has good ideas and was censored for being right.”

    But this guy is also just weirdly open about being a fascist.

    For most people it’s stuff like suddenly becoming very religious but only for Orthodoxy or Catholicism, if they were raised evangelical or irreligious.

    Being vocally uncomfortable with cities as a concept.

    Talking about how bad crime is these days.

    Making remarks about how you “can’t do that anymore” or “you never see that anymore.”

    I don’t think any of those are foolproof but they get the hitler-detector going.

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      “There isn’t enough room for more people here” when they live in a country that has over 38,000 golf courses and the average private suburban property is several times larger than the house that’s built on it.

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      If I hear that kind of take I always go “Yeah exactly billionaires use so many more resources than a normal person that they’re not sustainable and they have to go”. Strangely, so far nobody has agreed curious-marx

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        Any time someone talks about how China or India has more pollution than the US, like to tell them that there are more people in those countries, so per-capita the pollution is much lower. And the majority of that pollution is produced by factories that make goods that are sold in the US. So it’s pretty much our pollution, we just outsourced it.

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    Actually was just meeting a friend of a friend the other day and I was talking about rent prices, and they brought up “the illegals”

    Gave em the ol’ what-the-hell

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    Making sure everybody knows just how much you enjoy eating pork.

    “Western/European/Judeo-Christian/[nation_adjective] values”

    Having a football-related Twitter profile pic.

    Supporting zionism.

    That neighbourhood is dangerous!

    “We have to look out for our own first!” (Proceeds to do fuckall to look out for “their own”)

    “We can’t save the entire world”

    “There has to be a consequence!” (When talking about how some racialised form of crime is not punished enough)

    All forms of flag-shagging

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    Guys who refer to women as “females” but never refer to men as “males.” 95% of the time they are reactionary af.

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    ascribing everything to George Soros and ‘the globalists’, complaining about ‘the lgbt agenda’, warning about the ‘impending fall of western civilization’, complaining about there being too many immigrants and talking about civilizational incompatibility, suggesting shooting at boats with migrants in the Mediterranean, calling liberal politicians communists, trying to redeem Francisco Franco

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    ‘kek’ is a major red flag, but isn’t definite proof. Sometimes idiot liberals add the wrong words to their vocabulary.

    Knowing too much and at the same time not enough about Romans is also a big red flag.

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    There’s a certain elementary school education that just encodes this shit on your brain. Everything is Euro-centric. Only the most lily white aristocrats get any kind of credit for progress. Phillip of Macedonia, King Louis XIV of France, and Winston Churchill are transformative historical figures while Abū al-Qāsim Muḥammad, King Sejong the Great, and Ho Chi Minh barely merit a mention.

    Is it any wonder why American students step out of their high school graduation ceremonies believing Cleveland, Ohio is the pivot around which the rest of the world turns?

    One of the reasons a book like Howard Zinn’s “People’s History” sends so many college freshmen spinning sideways, despite it being barely a nudge off the center of the western oriented curriculum, stems from the degree to which public schools blind their students to any variance in historical perspective. These kids come out fragile as porcelain, and absolutely primed to shatter, given the teenage inclination toward rebellion and the ample evidence of their indoctrination.

    When I hear someone say “Western Civilization”, my knee-jerk response is to bring up something wildly outside their wheelhouse. Historical figures, events, and even whole civilizations they’ve never heard of. “Have you ever heard of the Phoenician alphabet? Because you’re using it, kid. Your entire language is rooted in North Africa.”