• DarkCloud@lemmy.world
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    7 hours ago

    No, the left aren’t in any way responsible for the right’s fascism, but understanding the role they/we have played in the Trumpist manufacture of a kind of “emotional pornography” that gets used in their propaganda narrative for their fascist outlook, might help in better responding to it, and avoiding the further adoption of that role in the cycle of its production.

    Having an emotional role, a part you fall into playing in something, isn’t quite the same as being responsible for it. Because this role just comes naturally for a lot of people.

    But yeah, thanks you for clarifying your purpose, the right will try regardless, so I agree with what your purpose, and that the left is not responsible for the right, even if the right will sometimes use the left’s outrage as a cog in their propaganda machine.