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Part One: The Eternal Fascist

Behind the Bastards

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The Rejection of Criticism and Disagreement Is a Sign of Modernism

The first books the Nazis burned were Magnus Hirschfeld's library of research on transgender individuals. Hatred of trans men and women is still a central unifying tenant of modern fascism. The cult of action for action sake expressed as a worship of the soldier of the man with a gun in his hand willing to do violence at a moment's notice. For fascists according to echo thinking is a form of a masculation. Thinking too long about something is like it's unmanly. You just got to take action.

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