What value is truth when you deal with people whose conviction is equalled only by their ignorance? Somehow it becomes an inconvenience; a burden.
Some people are too stupid to know how stupid they are. Which is an easy way of dismissing the ignorant. Normally I would be opposed to such behaviour. It plays all too easily into the divide and rule narrative of the ruling class. We can't all know everything; access to good education is a privilege, cuts to teaching services (including libraries) have impacted, and people lead busy lives working just to live.
But there are those that are just too stupid, and I'm afraid my sympathy reaches its limits with fascists revelling in their thuggery. I hope they can be reached, I just don't agree it's possible.
What makes it worse is how convinced they are of their position. Even to challenge them is to prove you are "one of them"; the intellectual elite. The Marxists, the commies, the socialists etc - antifa. The intelligentsia they've been programmed to fear. The worst part about it all is that trying to insert facts only proves their argument, in their eyes. Facts don't matter to them because they can't readily be proven. This is how the culture war was primed.
All that remains is to man the barricades. That, then, is the purpose of antifa. Not to win arguments, not to look good on Instagram, but to man the barricades: to defend communities from actual fascists. People who are so screwed over by the toxicity they are fed daily from our horrific media that they believe saluting like Hitler is a way to show respect to the man they believe defeated him - and was right in doing so. They defend the statue of Churchill, a racist member of the British Imperialist ruling class, by sig heiling! How screwed up ist that? Where is the cognitive dissonance? It's all around is, infecting the parts of us yet to bear Covid. How do we live like this?
To defend a statue against those that have genuinely fought against fascism in recent years, and against the oppression fascism brings. Now those guys are the villains.
I don't know how we win this. But if we allow antifa and the various street based grassroots organisations to be erased, legislated against, shot, strangled and choked out of existence, we will all suffer.
We're - you and me dear reader - will continue this theme (unless more world exploding craziness abounds) tomorrow as I've just read Peter Hitchens' latest inchoate screed. It's...madness
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