Derek Powazek 🐐Refusing to pick a side when one of the sides is fascism is picking the fascist side.
It's not brave. It's not moral. It's just surrendering in advance.
Kitt Hod@fraying Timothy Snyder talks about "Do not obey in advance," in On Tyranny. Other lessons resonate here, too. https://scholars.org/contribution/twenty-lessons-fighting-tyranny-twentieth
Twenty Lessons on Fighting Tyranny from the Twentieth Century
Americans are no wiser than the Europeans who saw democracy yield to fascism, Nazism or communism. Our one advantage is that we might learn from their experience. Now is a good time to do so. From across the fearful twentieth century, here are twenty lessons about what it takes to oppose tyranny, adapted to the circumstances of today.