{"id":18074,"date":"2021-06-17T17:54:07","date_gmt":"2021-06-18T00:54:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/politicalhat.com\/?p=18074"},"modified":"2021-06-17T17:54:07","modified_gmt":"2021-06-18T00:54:07","slug":"the-neo-marxist-paranoia-over-fascism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/2021\/06\/17\/the-neo-marxist-paranoia-over-fascism\/","title":{"rendered":"The Neo-Marxist Paranoia Over \u201cFascism!\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;An author and professor, Jared Yates Sexton, wrote a <a href=\"https:\/\/threadreaderapp.com\/thread\/1403388186911555588.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">long rant<\/a> saying that opposing Critical Race Theory being taught in schools is totes literally \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/archive.ph\/2wnea\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">fascist<\/a>\u201d and <a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/*\/https:\/\/threadreaderapp.com\/thread\/1403388186911555588.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Nazis are about to take over America<\/a>. While this is histrionic nonsense, the way he lays out his argument is the same thing that children are being taught in schools and is the dominant narrative that more and more people are coming to understand as \u201cthe truth\u201d. \u00a0 It isn\u2019t enough to just dismiss this as crazy and presume that most other people will agree without need to argue the point, this requires\u2026 a fisking.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_14179\" style=\"width: 510px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-14179\" class=\"size-full wp-image-14179\" src=\"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/zoot-dingo.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"346\" srcset=\"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/zoot-dingo.png 500w, https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/zoot-dingo-300x208.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-14179\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A fisking! A fisking!<\/p><\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Continuing on&#8230;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" align=\"center\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Honestly, I don&#39;t know how to stress this enough.<\/p>\n<p>The GOP&#39;s assault on education and history is a fascist attack based in Nazi ideology and is obsessed with power, control, and the protection of murderous white supremacy.<\/p>\n<p>We&#39;re in incredible danger.<\/p>\n<p>1\/<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/QVApwWSEEB\">https:\/\/t.co\/QVApwWSEEB<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Jared Yates Sexton (@JYSexton) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JYSexton\/status\/1403388186911555588?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 11, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script> <\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Ironic, since it is the &#8220;1619 Project&#8221; and Critical Race Theory that is distorting history to fin a preferred racial narrative. <\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-conversation=\"none\" align=\"center\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Yesterday, as a political measure, the state of Florida, pushed by the GOP, banned the teaching of &quot;critical race theory,&quot; or the investigation of systems of power, racism, and oppression.<\/p>\n<p>This isn&#39;t innocuous. It is a literal replaying of Nazi totalitarianism.<\/p>\n<p>2\/ <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/BuiHmtYHCi\">pic.twitter.com\/BuiHmtYHCi<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Jared Yates Sexton (@JYSexton) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JYSexton\/status\/1403388519599456256?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 11, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script> <\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;No, it just banned making a hateful and racially essentially ideology mandated propaganda and prevents the schools from pushing such bigoted indoctrination.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Critical Race Theory presumes that there are systems of \u201cpower, racism, and oppression\u201d and that it is its job to uncover what is already there.  It is the exact opposite of trying to find or understand the truth about the past.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-conversation=\"none\" align=\"center\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Underneath all of it is the concept of &quot;Cultural Marxism,&quot; or the idea that there is a secret conspiracy by communists, Jews, and liberal traitors, to destroy the culture of the country and unseat systems of power.<\/p>\n<p>It is paranoid, fascist, and can be murderous.<\/p>\n<p>3\/ <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/YT2Dd9sPGm\">pic.twitter.com\/YT2Dd9sPGm<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Jared Yates Sexton (@JYSexton) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JYSexton\/status\/1403388788315934722?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 11, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script> <\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Critical Race Theory posits a conspiracy to destroy culture and establishes itself to &#8220;unseat systems of power&#8221;, making it clear that this tweet is just another example of projection.  But notice what he did here: He intentionally brought in the \u201cJews\u201d.  While some anti-Semites are also anti-Communist, he is presenting without argument that opposition to Critical Race Theory is tantamount to literally Hitler.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-conversation=\"none\" align=\"center\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Hitler created his power base on this very conspiracy theory and presented it as an existential threat to Germans.<\/p>\n<p>The &quot;poison&quot; of cultural Marxism, he claimed, was making people question the state and was priming them for a revolution. It required extreme measures.<\/p>\n<p>4\/ <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/O6ciJtEZDD\">pic.twitter.com\/O6ciJtEZDD<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Jared Yates Sexton (@JYSexton) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JYSexton\/status\/1403389098052706304?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 11, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script> <\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;And right on schedule, the Reductio ad Hitlerum!  He says this while ignoring how it is &#8220;Whiteness&#8221; is the &#8220;very vast conspiracy&#8221; posited by Critical Race Theory as an axiomatic fact. <\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-conversation=\"none\" align=\"center\"><p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">What we&#39;re not often taught is that Nazis controlled Germany not just through speeches, but a total domination of culture.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;Degenerate&quot; art and culture was outlawed and determined as anything that made people question Germany&#39;s greatness or white supremacy.<\/p>\n<p>5\/ <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/psVTqIs5Ns\">pic.twitter.com\/psVTqIs5Ns<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Jared Yates Sexton (@JYSexton) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JYSexton\/status\/1403389331910373385?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 11, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script> <\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;I bet he hates Pepe the Frog memes for the same reason.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-conversation=\"none\" align=\"center\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">To solidify control, the Nazis banned degenerate art, claiming it was part of a conspiracy against the Germans, and instead replaced it with culture that reaffirmed their identity and purpose.<\/p>\n<p>It was supposed to be patriotic. It was controlling, and radicalizing.<\/p>\n<p>6\/ <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/0RW4Gni8Cd\">pic.twitter.com\/0RW4Gni8Cd<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Jared Yates Sexton (@JYSexton) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JYSexton\/status\/1403389568389353474?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 11, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script> <\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;The Left in America is doing the same. Denigrating and opposing art that opposes the woke narrative, or even opposing art just because it was from some dead White person.  And let us also not forget the tearing down of statues or memorials that are in opposition to the woke culture.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-conversation=\"none\" align=\"center\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">What resulted was a cult of personality and a suicidal devotion to the state and Hitler.<\/p>\n<p>All dissenting opinions were outlawed and cultured devoured itself, creating a madness that made fascism, warmongering, and genocide possible.<\/p>\n<p>7\/ <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/cIPeJnbjMs\">pic.twitter.com\/cIPeJnbjMs<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Jared Yates Sexton (@JYSexton) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JYSexton\/status\/1403389818630029318?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 11, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script> <\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Critical Race Theory is also a cult, and one that is consistent with &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/2021\/03\/22\/woke-genocide-social-justice-and-aztec-gods-in-california\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">counter genocide<\/a>&#8220;.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;He ignores that no one is calling for outlawing agreeing with Critical Race Theory, only that it not be taught as the gospel truth to children in public schools.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-conversation=\"none\" align=\"center\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">A prime part of the Nazi totalitarian plan involved the takeover of education, claiming it was &quot;indoctrinating&quot; students, they took it over in totality and, predictably, made it an aggressive engine of actual indoctrination.<\/p>\n<p>They captured generations of citizens.<\/p>\n<p>8\/ <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/7xzNdDrYtz\">pic.twitter.com\/7xzNdDrYtz<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Jared Yates Sexton (@JYSexton) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JYSexton\/status\/1403390060280659976?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 11, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script> <\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Just like Critical Race Theory and its proponents have already done.  Why, it is almost as if they are defending their own systems of oppression that are based in racial essentialism and racial discrimination!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-conversation=\"none\" align=\"center\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Actual information and history was taken from students and it was replaced with propaganda and religious worship of the state and Hitler.<\/p>\n<p>This takeover was meticulous, aggressive, and one of the main reasons fascism was able to gain its foothold and power.<\/p>\n<p>9\/ <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/tSvX5ckyVO\">pic.twitter.com\/tSvX5ckyVO<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Jared Yates Sexton (@JYSexton) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JYSexton\/status\/1403390296340242436?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 11, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script> <\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&#8220;Actual information and history was taken from students and it was replaced with propaganda&#8221;?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;That&#8217;s what Critical Race Theory and the &#8220;1619 Project&#8221; are doing.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-conversation=\"none\" align=\"center\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">But we don&#39;t need to start in Germany. In America, in response to the Russian Revolution, the original Red Scare created the same paranoia and made possible widespread violence and aggressive indoctrination, in media, in education, everywhere.<\/p>\n<p>10\/ <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/YwmiFQQzAR\">pic.twitter.com\/YwmiFQQzAR<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Jared Yates Sexton (@JYSexton) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JYSexton\/status\/1403390485851484166?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 11, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script> <\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;That kinda sounds like the paranoia about \u201cWhiteness\u201d lurking everywhere.  Of course, considering that the Soviet Union killed more people than Nazi Germany, and that the Soviet Union did indeed engage in these types of operations in the U.S. and elsewhere\u2026<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-conversation=\"none\" align=\"center\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Fear of &quot;cultural Marxism&quot; in America, the same conspiracy theory that made Nazism possible, spread through the United States, creating race massacres, lynchings, and a general oppression that hurt people of color, women, LGBTQ, as well as unions and leftists.<\/p>\n<p>11\/ <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/L4dMAxwdLk\">pic.twitter.com\/L4dMAxwdLk<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Jared Yates Sexton (@JYSexton) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JYSexton\/status\/1403390768518254596?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 11, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script> <\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Do notice how he inserted intersectionalism by basically saying that if you were worried about Communism, then you hated not only \u201cpeople of color\u201d but also women (even those who were anti-Communist), LGBTQ (who Communists also hated and oppressed), unions (many of whom were anti-Communists), and leftists (many of whom were still in that day and age classical liberals who believed in American values and were anti-Communist).<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;This is the world view where if you say anything bad about the Communists, then you must be literally Hitler or something.  This is, obviously, nothing compared to the racial conspiracy theories of &#8220;Whiteness&#8221; and &#8220;Systems of Oppression&#8221;. <\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-conversation=\"none\" align=\"center\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">The incident more people are familiar with is the second Red Scare, or McCarthyism, which was a proto-Qanon movement that took over the GOP and allowed the Right to destroy FDR&#39;s New Deal coalition via spreading conspiracy theories and paranoia.<\/p>\n<p>12\/ <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/hERBKoc6rf\">pic.twitter.com\/hERBKoc6rf<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Jared Yates Sexton (@JYSexton) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JYSexton\/status\/1403391066187907072?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 11, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script> <\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Except the Soviet Union did have spies who infiltrated everywhere and were working to undermine the U.S.  <\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;See the dishonesty here.  He puts together a skewed and one sided view of how America reacted to the very real Communist menace and blames\u2026 Americans who were rightfully worried.  He then treats this as a perfect parallel with the Cultural Marxism of Critical Race Theory to paint anyone who disagrees with it as a neo-Nazi.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-conversation=\"none\" align=\"center\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">The second Red Scare was able to create a silent oppression with America where citizens were so afraid of being spotlit as a traitor or part of the communist conspiracy that they often had to hide who they were and what they believed.<\/p>\n<p>It was soft totalitarianism.<\/p>\n<p>13\/ <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/D9FKlgiUdJ\">pic.twitter.com\/D9FKlgiUdJ<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Jared Yates Sexton (@JYSexton) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JYSexton\/status\/1403391336569528327?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 11, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script> <\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;The only reason to hide is if you were a Communist.  And opposing a totalitarian ideology is not a \u201csoft totalitarianism\u201d, not then against tankie style Communism, and certainly not against the totalitarian ideology that is part and parcel of Critical Race Theory.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Funny, though, how he missed the obvious and more accurate parallel of \u201csilincing dissent\u201d with today\u2019s \u201ccancel culture\u201d complete with doxxing and harassment.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-conversation=\"none\" align=\"center\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Of course, the Civil Rights Movement created a crisis in America that revealed what hid behind the soft totalitarianism.<\/p>\n<p>Again, as white supremacy was challenged, the paranoia, violence, and oppression was forced to rear its head and expose the fascism underneath.<\/p>\n<p>14\/ <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/vuxcFCj1j1\">pic.twitter.com\/vuxcFCj1j1<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Jared Yates Sexton (@JYSexton) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JYSexton\/status\/1403391568539705350?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 11, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script> <\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Critical Race Theory is in opposition to what the Civil Rights movement stood for.  The old Civil Rights movement stood for the idea that people should be judged by the content of their character and not the color of their skin.  Ciritcal Race Theory views everything through the lens of race and presumes that different races must be treated differently and that one\u2019s race was the prime if not only relevant factor in how to treat an individual.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-conversation=\"none\" align=\"center\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">The struggle for Civil Rights was turned into yet another communist conspiracy as the Right came to believe the marches and protests were secret communist operations that meant to destroy America.<\/p>\n<p>It was, yet again, the same fascist conspiracy theory.<\/p>\n<p>15\/ <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/9oiZlwqIiv\">pic.twitter.com\/9oiZlwqIiv<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Jared Yates Sexton (@JYSexton) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JYSexton\/status\/1403391825134686213?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 11, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script> <\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;The Soviet Union did try to push the Civil Rights movement more towards un-American radicalism, and that un-American radicalism was oppossed primarily by Civil Rights supporters who were also anti-Communist.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Also, \u201cAnti-Communism\u201d \u2260 \u201cFascism\u201d.  Perhaps this is a subconcious admission that \u201cAntifa (AKA \u2018Anti-Fascism\u2019)\u201d = \u201cCommunism\u201d?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-conversation=\"none\" align=\"center\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Southern leaders and white supremacists were quite open during Civil Rights in their belief that Black Americans were being manipulated by Russia and that it was all a giant communist conspiracy.<\/p>\n<p>Even question white supremacy was considered treason.<\/p>\n<p>16\/ <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/vaATVX5viM\">pic.twitter.com\/vaATVX5viM<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Jared Yates Sexton (@JYSexton) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JYSexton\/status\/1403392039274881029?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 11, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script> <\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Is he unaware that &#8220;segregation now, segregation forever, segregation forever&#8221; mentality is being pushed by the Left with Critical Race Theory as the justification, right?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Is he unaware that the opposition to Critical Race Theory isn\u2019t about a conspiracy theory but about what is literally be pushed in schools right now?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-conversation=\"none\" align=\"center\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">The violence against Civil Rights protesters was considered self-defense, America defending itself against communist infiltration and an insidious plot, again by Jews, communists, leftist traitors, and people of color being manipulated into joining.<\/p>\n<p>17\/ <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/p5RmQjtfij\">pic.twitter.com\/p5RmQjtfij<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Jared Yates Sexton (@JYSexton) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JYSexton\/status\/1403392250554560514?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 11, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script> <\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;No, the violence against Civil Rights protesters shocked and disgusted most of the country.  It\u2019s one of the main reasons why segregation lost (until now when it became woke).  This is the justification Critical Race Theory uses to build a united woke front against &#8220;Whiteness&#8221;. <\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-conversation=\"none\" align=\"center\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">If this sounds familiar, it should.<\/p>\n<p>Black Lives Matter was treated as a conspiracy, a manufactured movement that was being directed by shadowy forces and ultimately focused on destroying America&#39;s foundations, creating distrust, and ultimately leading to the end of the US.<\/p>\n<p>18\/ <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/n7vFRoHw8h\">pic.twitter.com\/n7vFRoHw8h<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Jared Yates Sexton (@JYSexton) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JYSexton\/status\/1403392485188161543?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 11, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Because Black Lives Matter is \u201cultimately focused on destroying America&#8217;s foundations, creating distrust, and ultimately leading to the end of the US.\u201d  Their statement of principles is pretty much all about that.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-conversation=\"none\" align=\"center\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">What we&#39;re experiencing RIGHT NOW is the same Judeo-Bolshevik conspiracy theory that animated the Nazis and fascists.<\/p>\n<p>It&#39;s a different version, an update, but it is the animating force of the GOP and the Right.<\/p>\n<p>It operates exactly the same way and demands action.<\/p>\n<p>19\/ <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/fwrgvqxyfm\">pic.twitter.com\/fwrgvqxyfm<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Jared Yates Sexton (@JYSexton) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JYSexton\/status\/1403392753258610690?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 11, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script> <\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Here we go again with the insinuation that opposition to Communism is solely motivated by anti-Semitism, and that only Nazis would have a problem with Communism or Critical Race Theory.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Yet again, he is projecting your own ideology. It is Critical Race Theory that posits a conspiracy of one group that establishes its own unearned privileges by creating systems of oppression that keep down the rest of the population\u2014which is the same core idea behind the Nazi ideology.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-conversation=\"none\" align=\"center\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">The focus now is George Soros and other &quot;Jewish puppetmasters.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>This is ultimately what&#39;s at the heart of the anti-CRT, anti-&quot;woke&quot; movement.<\/p>\n<p>It is a fascistic, antisemetic conspiracy theory meant to provoke violence and oppression.<\/p>\n<p>20\/ <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/T805aMUHku\">pic.twitter.com\/T805aMUHku<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Jared Yates Sexton (@JYSexton) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JYSexton\/status\/1403392988739518467?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 11, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script> <\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;The Nazis believed that the Jews created a system of oppression through which they ruled empowered by their unearned privilege, and that Jews collectively were to blame.  Critical Race Theory presumes that same except with (((Whites))) in the role of the Jews.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Opposition to this ideological belief, whether it be literal Nazis or believers of Critical Race Theory, is about as \u201canti-Nazi\u201d as you can get.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-conversation=\"none\" align=\"center\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">By capturing the education system, the Right intends to forcefully reassert white supremacy as benevolence, or the idea that white people have exploited and murdered people of color out of good intentions and in the pursuit of progress.<\/p>\n<p>21\/<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/bPn8MqjqvI\">https:\/\/t.co\/bPn8MqjqvI<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Jared Yates Sexton (@JYSexton) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JYSexton\/status\/1403393213440856074?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 11, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script> <\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;It is the already captured education system that teaches that Whites are morally culpable for some collective racial guilt, or that teaches racial essentialism and the inherent inequality of the races?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;It is a false dilemma fallacy to assert the only choices are White Supremacy vs. the collective racial sin of \u201cWhiteness\u201d.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-conversation=\"none\" align=\"center\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">And, it is yet another front in the GOP&#39;s war to dismantle democratic institutions considering they are historically unpopular and that white supremacy and hypercapitalistic exploitation are in crisis and in danger of being unseated.<\/p>\n<p>22\/<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/sYo2SwAr8j\">https:\/\/t.co\/sYo2SwAr8j<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Jared Yates Sexton (@JYSexton) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JYSexton\/status\/1403393458312814606?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 11, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script> <\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;So, it\u2019s only \u201cdemocracy\u201d when it results in the outcome he wants?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-conversation=\"none\" align=\"center\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">But make no mistake.<\/p>\n<p>This isn&#39;t about CRT.<\/p>\n<p>It&#39;s about walling off information, about instituting &quot;patriotic,&quot; white supremacist education that ensures people don&#39;t understand systems of power and promoting militaristic self-destruction within the population.<\/p>\n<p>23\/ <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/KVtZqyh6Jh\">pic.twitter.com\/KVtZqyh6Jh<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Jared Yates Sexton (@JYSexton) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JYSexton\/status\/1403393718032424963?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 11, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script> <\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;No honest person who has read Florida\u2019s rule, or the many other <a href=\"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/2021\/06\/04\/critical-race-theory-legislation-tracker\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">proposals in other states<\/a>, could say that.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;The key part of the new rule in Florida just <a href=\"https:\/\/www.flrules.org\/gateway\/ruleNo.asp?id=6A-1.094124\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">reads<\/a> as follows:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cInstruction on the required topics must be factual and objective and may not suppress or distort significant historical events, such as the Holocaust, and may not define American history as something other than the creation of a new nation based largely on universal principles stated in the Declaration of Independence.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;This is not \u201cWhite Supremacy\u201d.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-conversation=\"none\" align=\"center\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Things are&#8230;escalating.<\/p>\n<p>We&#39;ve been watching this for years and trying to warn people that fascism is growing and festering in the US.<\/p>\n<p>It CAN and HAS happened here. This time it is an insidious new strain and it&#39;s only growing with every passing day.<\/p>\n<p>24\/<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Jared Yates Sexton (@JYSexton) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JYSexton\/status\/1403393996102176774?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 11, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script> <\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Clearly he doesn\u2019t even understand what Fascism actually is.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-conversation=\"none\" align=\"center\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Again, I cannot stress this enough. This is an incredibly dangerous moment, and people need to recognize it immediately.<\/p>\n<p>Denying it and pretending like this will solve itself only gives these people room to grow and spread.<\/p>\n<p>This is a five-alarm fire. Raging.<\/p>\n<p>25\/25<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Jared Yates Sexton (@JYSexton) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JYSexton\/status\/1403394184887865346?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 11, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script> <\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Funny how it is he who is treating this as some type of \u201cReichstag Moment\u201d.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/producers-springtime-for-hitler-lsd.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-18076\" srcset=\"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/producers-springtime-for-hitler-lsd.jpg 480w, https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/producers-springtime-for-hitler-lsd-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1px) 100vw, 1px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\"><meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@PoliticHatblog\"><meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@ThePoliticalhat\"><meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"The Neo-Marxist Paranoia Over 'Fascism!'\"><meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"An author and professor, Jared Yates Sexton, wrote a long rant saying that opposing Critical Race Theory being taught in schools is totes literally 'fascists' and Nazis about to take over America.  While this is histrionic nonsense, the way he lays out his argument is the same thing that children are being taught in schools and is the dominant narrative that more and more people are coming to understand as 'the truth'.  It isn't enough to just dismiss this as crazy and presume that most other people will agree without need to argue the point, this requires\u2026 a fisking.\"><meta name=\"twitter:image:src\" content=\"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/producers-springtime-for-hitler-lsd.jpg\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;An author and professor, Jared Yates Sexton, wrote a long rant saying that opposing Critical Race Theory being taught in schools is totes literally \u201cfascist\u201d and Nazis are about to take over America. 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