Fascist Bigots Galore
Any sane person who doesn’t live in a cave has noticed how mainstream fascism has become in recent years.
Since I’m not a cishet white male Christian, it significantly decreases my sense of safety. It exacerbates my anxiety. The fascists are attacking everyone except cishet white male Christians: they’re taking away our rights and demonizing anyone who has a uterus, anyone who doesn’t fit into gender binary, anyone LGBTQIA+ or any people of color, anyone who’s Ashkenazi. The fascists hate Jews, Muslims, and Pagans. I keep a baseball bat by my front door.
Even without this rising fascism, I’d probably on occasion stop and think: If this were the seventeenth century, I’d be burned at the stake.
I attempted to take a week off social media, after Nazibook and Tribel were especially toxic on Sunday the 19th. As of February 19, 2023: Thanks to the enthusiasm for antisemitic conspiracy theories, I no longer subscribe to a certain paranormal podcast and have not only blocked many willfully ignorant garbage people (fans of said podcast) but also dropped out of three Facebook groups connected to that podcast. No regrets. I also blocked two other immature and bigoted twits on Tribel, allegedly a progressive alternative to Facebook.
I find I’m taking my intuition and boundaries increasingly more seriously and feeling less inclined to…