The genius of racism and its succubus twin fascism—that genius is that any political structure can host that virus and virtually any country can become a suitable home. Fascism only talks ideology but it really is just marketing, marketing for power. It’s recognizable by its need to purge, the strategies it uses to purge and its terror of truly democratic goals. It changes citizens into taxpayers so individuals become rife with anger at the notion of the public good. It changes citizens into consumers so the measure of our value as humans is not our humanity, nor our compassion, nor our generosity, none of the virtues that human beings aspire to claim. None of that but what we own. And in so doing produces the perfect capitalist. The one who is willing to kill a human being for a product—a sneaker, a jacket, a car, a company. That is the ideal situation for a consumer, lay capitalist society. You don’t have to advertise any more. It changes parenting into panicking so that we vote against the education, against the healthcare, against the safety from weapons, against the interest of our own children. It may wear a new dress, it may buy a new pair of boots, but fascism is not new.
Toni Morrison (via thesavagegirlwonder)
Been sifting for this truth.
