That's the point of fascism, to demonize anything that isn't the [current despotic] state. Demonize isn't an idle term in this case, it's very much an attempt to create a religious adherence to Ill Douche and look on anyone who doesn't as a satanic heretic.
To save democracy, we must acknowledge that it has ills, but that instead of purging those ills with narcissistic glee, we must soberly attempt to reform before we remove.
They might be gang members, but they still deserve due process. Due process they've been denied. Due process Trump had.
You can argue they should have to prove that people have engaged in illegal acts, but that is very different (and far more concrete) than the inescapably subjective ‘gang member.’
That's the key though, in using an already common semi-demonized term and declaring that [by circular reasoning] it removes the right to due process, fascists win.
We have to strip circular logic from the argument and declare that ALL individuals deserve the right to due process, no exceptions.
Being able to proudly label anyone who disagrees with the agenda of the US government as a criminal or domestic terrorist (Mahmoud Khalil for example) is the death of the first amendment that conservative leaders have wanted all along.
There is…Revolutionaries. Freedom Fighters. Waldenites (Thoreau was big into civil disobedience and it’s obscure enough they won’t get it).
Constitutionalists, Montagnards (a name of some of the French Revolutionists meaning The Mountain).
This! Immediately after WWII, Greece entered a period of civil war between the left-wing forces who had fought against the Nazi occupation and the right wing collaborators who assumed power and high level positions following the war. The left wing guerillas were immediately branded "gang members".
Let's not forget that the Greek Nazi collaboraters assumed that power with the direct aid and intervention of the US and UK, including the soldiers of both nations directly opening fire on left-wing Greek civilians.
To this day, older right wingers refuse to call it "civil war" and instead call it "gang war". If you want to learn more, just Google "German occupation of Greece" but, content warning; be prepared for extremely gruesome stuff. You can't unsee/unread those things. Please be EXTREMELY cautious.
I agree. Though maybe it's changing. The Luigi Mangione case, for instance, flipped the script on what a lot of normies think of as acceptable forms of political violence. Because conditions really are bad enough to force those questions.
It was his philosophy and we all know that you can’t control millions of people from different ideologies and ethnic backgrounds. The powers within the British Empire didn’t help either.
Sure there is. "You're lying, this person isn't a terrorist/gang member/criminal" is a perfectly good counterpoint that everyone of any political tendency and education level can understand. Meanwhile the *idea* of those sorts of people are universal concepts across the world.
The intentional mislabeling of goods is a global phenomenon. It’s particularly sad when such well-crafted items are labeled beneath their quality. So much value lost.
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Not shockingly, it's very much idolatry.
They might be gang members, but they still deserve due process. Due process they've been denied. Due process Trump had.
We have to strip circular logic from the argument and declare that ALL individuals deserve the right to due process, no exceptions.
Free speech is dead, and we killed it.
Constitutionalists, Montagnards (a name of some of the French Revolutionists meaning The Mountain).
Even when groups use nonviolence they are still labeled as terrorists or agitators. The label doesn’t follow a rational definition.