It's best to understand that fascists see hypocrisy as a virtue. It's how they signal that the things they are doing to people were never meant to be equally applied.
It's not an inconsistency. It's very consistent to the only true fascist value, which is domination.
It's very important to understand, fascists don't just see hypocrisy as a necessary evil or an unintended side-effect.
It's the purpose. The ability to enjoy yourself the thing you're able to deny others, because you dominate, is the whole point.
For fascists, hypocrisy is a great virtue—the greatest.
we love to shout about every lie and inconsistency
we spend days and weeks researching, documenting, amplifying "you said you wanted free speech and now you're blocking speech you don't like"
maybe we should keep documenting, but instead of yelling about every lie, show how the lies serve a larger, more dangerous purpose
the lies are the means, not the ends
@JuliusGoat Iain M. Banks nailed this in THE PLAYER OF GAMES when he had an official of the Evil Space Empire say that the whole point of power was to make rules for other people that you don't have to follow.
This is also why there's no confuson in re. the handful of marginalized folks who caper for fascism. Patriarchy isn't men, racism isn't white people, and authoritarianism isn't a demographic - it's a *system* that favors some people over others, and anyone can do its work.
"I want" and "I believe" take precedence over "He said" and "We know".
@JuliusGoat Yep.
"But they are amusing themselves, for it is their adversary who is obliged to use words responsibly, since he believes in words. The anti‐Semites have the right to play. They even like to play with discourse for, by giving ridiculous reasons, they discredit the seriousness of their interlocutors. They delight in acting in bad faith, since they seek not to persuade by sound argument but to intimidate and disconcert.”
— Jean-Paul Sartre. Anti-Semite and Jew (1944).
https://youtu.be/Bp0LMOEE7MY
"Awwww Sweet Jesus!" --McNair, 1776
It reminds me of something I read that compared Trump's lies to face tattoos in gang members: something so conspicuous and indelible serves to signal membership in and full commitment to the gang. Among fascists hypocrisy is the same, methinks.
Dewey Cheatem and Howe
A.R. Moxon, Verified Duck 🦆
azteclady has moved
ares
Dan LK
Bethankit Hums
Voline
John Mastodon
v̾i̾t̾r̾i̾o̾l̾i̾x̾
Romaq
thereisnodog
Antonio Páez 🇲🇽🇨🇦