Fascism is about the in-group that gets to make rules that bind the out-group but not themselves. The important bit there is the enforcement of those rules with the state’s monopoly on violence.
Merely having an in-group and an out-group is harmless on its own. It’s how you have inside jokes. It’s how you have friends who you can trust with secrets. It’s how families work.
Having in-jokes with your friends is not tribalistic. I mean, it may be something a small tribe does—that’s not what we’re talking about.
Performative hatred of “the other ones”, sports teams, clankers, what have you, scratches the same itch fascists love scratching. Obviously, that’s something they can leverage.
Fascism is about the in-group that gets to make rules that bind the out-group but not themselves. The important bit there is the enforcement of those rules with the state’s monopoly on violence.
Merely having an in-group and an out-group is harmless on its own. It’s how you have inside jokes. It’s how you have friends who you can trust with secrets. It’s how families work.
Having in-jokes with your friends is not tribalistic. I mean, it may be something a small tribe does—that’s not what we’re talking about.
Performative hatred of “the other ones”, sports teams, clankers, what have you, scratches the same itch fascists love scratching. Obviously, that’s something they can leverage.