Justin Mohn, a 32-year-old Pennsylvania man, is in police custody after allegedly murdering and decapitating his father, claiming the latter was a "federal employee" and a "traitor." Before his arrest, Mohn posted a 14-minute video to YouTube in which he displayed his father's severed head, proclaiming: "This is the head of Mike Mohn, a federal

Justin Mohn, a 32-year-old Pennsylvania man, is in police custody after allegedly murdering and decapitating his father, claiming the latter was a “federal employee” and a “traitor.” Before his arrest, Mohn posted a 14-minute video to YouTube in which he displayed his father’s severed head, proclaiming: "This is the head of Mike Mohn, a federal

    • Cosmonauticus@lemmy.world
      34·
      10 months ago

      Kinda like saying if you don’t support BLM you’re a racist

      No it’s not the same. A better equivalent would be are you racist or anti-racist. Are you pro or anti rape. Are you pro or anti slavery.

      Facism is defined as a violently oppressive form of government. It shouldn’t be a hard question if you’re not a piece of shit

    • Flying Squid@lemmy.world
      26·
      10 months ago

      and guess what happened? A bunch of people started saying “well I guess I’m a racist now”

      They were always racists. They just decided it was okay to admit it.

            • Flying Squid@lemmy.world
              8·
              10 months ago

              What does that have to do with your spurious claim that people call themselves racists out of spite and not because they’re racists?

            • Perfide@reddthat.com
              6·
              10 months ago

              What at all does that have to do with being a fascist or an anti-fascist? A shitty survey asking people which of two awful groups of people they prefer is not at all the same as asking what one’s opinion on fascism is.

              Fascism is very clearly defined. There is no pigeonholing here, there is no third option being left off the table like there was in that survey. You’re either in favor of fascism, actively by supporting it or passively by not resisting it, or you are anti-fascist and resisting the rise of fascism to the best of your abilities. There is no in-between.

    • AbidanYre@lemmy.worldEnglish
      251·
      10 months ago

      BLM is a specific organization. Fascism is an ideology. It’s more like saying if you’re not for civil rights you’re a racist.

      But really, you’re spending a lot of time and energy trying to explain why you’re, at best, neutral on fascism.

        • AbidanYre@lemmy.worldEnglish
          11·
          10 months ago

          You think being against fascism is extreme? That should be a baseline position.

          And I’m not going to coddle Trump supporters just because they act like contrarian children when they get called out.

          If some anonymous nobody on the Internet is making you support Trump or embrace hate because they said something you didn’t like or called you a mean name and you want to pwn them, you were just looking for a reason to support it anyway and need to grow the fuck up.

            • AbidanYre@lemmy.worldEnglish
              5·
              10 months ago

              So now you’re going to argue linguistics as a reason to not come out against fascism? That’s really just supporting my stance of “grow the fuck up already.”

    • YeetPics@mander.xyz
      9·
      10 months ago

      If they pick fascist ‘to spite’ me they’re very clearly in that camp. Not because the question was asked but because of their intent in answering.