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You ask me to die / I’ll stay alive straight down yr throat / cuz when you ask me to die / i don’t take it personal

The story’s true but I won’t describe / all the main characters

“I’ve had countless hushed conversations with friends about this anxiety, and how it has led us to refrain from participation in activist events, conversations, and spaces because we feel ina…

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“Call-out culture was developed to allow activist groups to confront leaders who abused their privilege, but now it is being used to settle petty scores on the level of interpersonal politics. I now have a hard time believing some people when they make call-outs because I have seen too many that were based on nothing.

Cognitive linguist George Lakoff thinks journalists are covering Trump tweets all wrong.

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BROOKE GLADSTONE: So there was one from Wednesday this week that you say embodies all four of these categories, preemptive framing, diversion, trial balloon and deflection. I will read it. It is, “Intelligence agencies should not have allowed this fake news to leak into the public, one last shot at me. Are we living in Nazi Germany?”

GEORGE LAKOFF: First, preemptive framing, this is fake news, secondly, diversion, it's gonna be discussed whether or not it’s fake news or should have been leaked, rather than the content.

BROOKE GLADSTONE: Right.

GEORGE LAKOFF: There’s deflection, which is attacking the messengers, and then you get the trial balloon, will the intelligence agencies be stopped from doing this? Are they working like Nazi Germany?

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#taxonomies #trump #tweets #george lakoff #categories

When people focus too much on psychological tricks, there’s a chance they can miss the bigger forces swirling around.

#mindfulness #inequality #behavioral economics #suckers

Identity-based critiques of economic reductionism have become tools for obscuring the divergent interests of rich and poor Democrats.

#bernie sanders #identity politics #the democratic party #economic populism #hillary clinton #democrats #infighting #class divides

Vote in local and state elections while you can. Notice the swastikas and the other signs of hate—do not look away and do not get used to them.

#democracy #guides #fascism

III. The Race Theory [ii]

THE OBJECTIVE AND SUBJECTIVE FUNCTIONS OF IDEOLOGY

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The structure of fascism is characterized by metaphysical thinking, unorthodox faith, obsession with abstract ethical ideals, and belief in the divine predestination of the führer. These basic features are linked with a deeper layer, which is characterized by a strong authoritarian tie to the führer-ideal or the nation. The belief in a “master race” became the principal mainspring of the tie to the “führer” on the part of the National Socialist masses, as well as the foundation of their voluntary acceptance of slavish submission. In addition to this, however, the intensive identification with the führer had a decisive effect, for it concealed one’s real status as an insignificant member of the masses. Notwithstanding his vassalage, every National Socialist felt himself to be a “little Hitler.” Now, however, we want to turn our attention to the characterological basis of these attitudes. We must seek out the dynamic functions that, while they themselves are determined by education and the social atmosphere as a whole, remold human structures to such an extent that tendencies of a reactionary-irrational nature are capable of taking shape in them to such an extent that, completely enveloped in their identification with the “führer,” the masses are immune to the insult heaped upon them by the label “inferior.”

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-Wilhelm Reich, The Mass Psychology of Fascism, p. 80

#wilhelm reich #fascism #racism

III. The Race Theory

ITS CONTENTS

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Race theorists, who are as old as imperialism itself, want to achieve racial purity in peoples whose interbreeding, as a result of the expansion of the word economy, is so far advanced that racial purity can have a meaning only to a numbskull. We do not want to enter into the other absurdities here--as if racial circumscription and not its opposite, promiscuous mating within the same species, were the rule in nature. In the present examination we are not concerned with the rational content of the race theory, a theory that, in stead of proceeding from facts to valuations, proceeded from valuations to a distortion of the facts. Nor will arguments be of any use against a fascist who is narcissistically convinced of the supreme superiority of his Teutonism, if only because he operates with irrational feelings and not with arguments. Hence, it would be hopeless to try to prove to a fascist that black people and Italians are not racially “inferior” to the Teutons. He feels himself to be “superior,” and that’s the end of it. The race theory can be refuted only by exposing its irrational functions, of which there are essentially two: that of giving expression to certain unconscious and emotional currents prevalent in the nationalistically disposed man and of concealing certain psychic tendencies. Only the latter function will be discussed here. We are especially interested in the fact that Hitler speaks of “incest” when an Aryan interbreeds with a non-Aryan, whereas it is usually sexual intercourse among those who are related by blood that is designated as incest. How are such stupidities to be explained in a “theory” that presumed to be the basis of a new world, a “third Reich”? When we bear in mind that in the final analysis the irrational, emotional basis of such a hypothesis owes its existence to definite existential factors; when we free ourselves of the notion that the discovery of such irrational sources of views of life, which have come into being on a rational basis, means a shifting of the question into the sphere of metaphysics, then we open the way to the source of metaphysics itself. We comprehend not only the historical conditions under which metaphysical thinking arises, but also its material substance. Let the results speak for themselves.

-Wilhelm Reich, The Mass Psychology of Fascism, p. 78-9

#wilhelm reich #the mass psychology of fascism #fascism #racism

Chomsky warned years ago that the U.S. was ripe for the rise of an authoritarian. Now he speaks about the election, the state of the U.S. political system and the threat Donald Trump poses to the world. - 2016/11/14

#alt right #authoritarianism #cj polychroniou #donald trump #noam chomsky

The South London Press and London Weekly News have joined forces with Lambeth and Southwark Mind to launch the Change Is Possible mental health campaign. In less than a month, we have already had a fantastic response from readers as we strive to end the stigma around mental health in our communities. In the latest in a …

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How do you deal with oppressive behavior in your activist communities? Sometimes when we call each other out, we're acting out of fear – not aiming for accountability. Here's what to look out for, and what to try instead.

#call outs #accountability #behavior #activists #activism

Clinton, Trump and Stein answer 20 top questions about science, engineering, technology, health and environmental issues

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Blaise Pascal set out the most effective way to persuade someone, centuries before there was any formal study of persuasion.

#minds #changes #pascal #persuasion

When the guards learned about a therapist's pilot program, they wanted sessions, too.

#freud #psychoanalysis #prisons #prisoners #therapy #argentina #lacan

May 6 was Sigmund Freud's birthday (born in 1856). It has been more or ...

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