• WhatAmLemmy@lemmy.world
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    4 days ago

    It’s like saying the birthplace of antifascism was Fascist Germany or Italy… Like, yeah… It be like it do, because of how it did?

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      4 days ago

      It’s like saying the birthplace of antifascism was Fascist Germany or Italy…

      Post-WW1 Italy had one of the largest and most active Communist Parties in Europe. I don’t think it is reasonable to say “Italians are just fascist because of where they grew up” when you’ve got an enormous contrary datapoint. Neither is it reasonable to say Alabama produces racists ex nihilo. In the case of Redstone Arsenal, the federal government effective created a Fascist Reservation System and cultivated European extremist refugees like it was some kind of political petri dish.