my plan is to take all the fascists and read them Harry Potter and explain how they’re the Slytherins and liberals are the Gryffindors

meanwhile you tankies are the death eaters

Critical support to the guy who kidnapped a racist and made her watch all of Roots then let her go though

“Noooo, killing Nazis makes you just as hateful as the Nazis!”, I yell, as my black and queer neighbors are being arrested and transported to a nearby Nazi concentration camp for being untermenschen.

The premise of American History X doesn’t even bear out this stupid fucking idea. The story isn’t about a guy watching a movie-as-cautionary-tale. It’s about a neo nazi idealist who has his ideology crushed to smithereens by the consequences he endured as a direct result of that ideology. Fascism came home and ruined his life and his family. He hit rock bottom.

You know what also has a rock bottom? The

The story of redemption isn’t him just leaving the life. It’s also him trying to save his brother and other disaffected kids from doing the same. He is going to live a life trapped inside the box his younger self placed him in. He’s out of the prison he didn’t make and now inside the one he did make. He’ll be there forever or until fascism dies.

I might not be the smartest about analyzing film but I always thought the entire point was that he couldn’t call it even just because he called it quits. There was work to be done.

fuck do I know

Literally the only correct statement in that whole thing. Make them watch a film, what a dimwit.

I always enjoy reminding people how actual nazis were treated by liberals i.e. with kid gloves.

cw for the link: mentions of bbq’ed nazi and a lot of handwringing about sorting the fash into harry potter houses instead of actually judging them for their crimes:

“I remember talking to Soviet officers,” he adds. “And they were baffled. “You know they’re guilty,” they’d say. ‘Why don’t you just shoot them?’” There was a lot of that kind of feeling in postwar Germany."

The habit of accusing people that disagree with them of mental illness, with the implication that mental illness makes them bad and despicable people, is far, far too common.

AHX is a terrible film to deradicalize someone with. It doesn’t actually even begin to address why the viewer should not be fascist.

I don’t have a plan at all but I know someone smarter than me can come up with one.

Oh wait someone smarter than me DID come up with one? Okay but not that one!

How authoritarian to make someone watch a movie

That’s what they do in North Korea, they make you watch the movies that Dear Leader made with kidnapped movie stars and if you don’t clap at the end, your seat flips upside down and drops you into a cave where you’re forced to mine popcorn the rest of your life

Fascists will be killed not because we hate them, but because we love them. There. Problem solved.

They just need to watch one movie and they will stop hating jews, gays, blacks, women, etc.

Most Americans are mentally ill because they can’t afford to see a therapist.

I hate everything about this sentence.

Nazis fucking love American History X. They look up to the main character, see him as a badass.