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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsVideo shown during Jan 6th rally was shot-through with fascist imagery & symbolism.
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@jsrailton
Until I read Prof. @jasonintrator's essay I hadn't paid attention to this shocking movie from the rally.
Now I can't stop thinking about it. Stanley argues it's shot-through with fascist imagery & symbolism.
Watch & judge for yourself.
Must read essay: https://justsecurity.org/74504/movie-at-the-ellipse-a-study-in-fascist-propaganda/
@jsrailton
Until I read Prof. @jasonintrator's essay I hadn't paid attention to this shocking movie from the rally.
Now I can't stop thinking about it. Stanley argues it's shot-through with fascist imagery & symbolism.
Watch & judge for yourself.
Must read essay: https://justsecurity.org/74504/movie-at-the-ellipse-a-study-in-fascist-propaganda/
https://www.justsecurity.org/74504/movie-at-the-ellipse-a-study-in-fascist-propaganda/
On January 6, Trump supporters gathered at a rally at Washington DCs Ellipse Park, regaled by various figures from Trump world, including Donald Trump Jr. and Rudy Giuliani. Directly following Giulianis speech, the organizers played a video. To a scholar of fascist propaganda, well-versed in the history of the National Socialists pioneering use of videos in political propaganda, it was clear, watching it, what dangers it portended. In it, we see themes and tactics that history warns pose a violent threat to liberal democracy. Given the aims of fascist propaganda to incite and mobilize the events that followed were predictable.
Before decoding what the video presents, it is important to take a step back and discuss the structure of fascist ideology and how it can mobilize its most strident supporters to take violent actions.
I. The Fascist Framework
Increasingly central to Trumpism is the QAnon conspiracy theory, which, as many commentators have now pointed out, closely resembles Nazi anti-Semitic myths. QAnon is just the most obvious manifestation of the increasing parallels between Trumpism and Hitlers framework itself. Indeed, several contemporary fascist and white supremacist movements find similar roots in the framework Hitler developed, even if they did not culminate in such extreme actions as the Nazis.
Fascist thought
Chapter 2 of Mein Kampf, Hitlers first and most famous book, is entitled Years of Study and Suffering in Vienna. In it, he documents what he describes as his gradual realization that behind the various institutions of power were the Jews. His enlightenment supposedly begins with the entertainment industry, where he remarks that [t]he fact that nine tenths of all literary filth, artistic trash, and theatrical idiocy can be set to the account of a people, constituting hardly one hundredth of all the countrys inhabitants, could simply not be talked away; it was plain truth. But it was, Hitler writes, when he recognized the Jew as the leader of the Social Democracy that the scales fell from [his] eyes. Hitler describes a growing sense, foundational to the ideology the book delineates, the ideology of Nazism, that Jews were controlling the apparatus of the state, both as important party politicians in the Social Democratic Party, and as operators behind the scenes of the press and other institutions.
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Video shown during Jan 6th rally was shot-through with fascist imagery & symbolism. (Original Post)
Nevilledog
Feb 2021
OP
Article really lays out the iconography. Thread title is accurate. . . . nt
Bernardo de La Paz
Feb 2021
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mopinko
(69,804 posts)1. sweet baby jaysus. that is horrifying.
play that at the trial.
Nevilledog
(50,660 posts)4. It should be.
mopinko
(69,804 posts)5. then dare those spineless reptiles to acquit.
Nevilledog
(50,660 posts)6. I truly believe the only way he'd be convicted in by secret ballots
frazzled
(18,402 posts)2. Did Leni Reifenstahl make that movie?
I had no idea about the film at the Ellipse ... scary, but not surprised.
Bernardo de La Paz
(48,784 posts)3. Article really lays out the iconography. Thread title is accurate. . . . nt
AntiFascist
(12,792 posts)7. M. Greene: a perfect example of Hitler's master race n/t
jeffreyi
(1,934 posts)9. Good article.
Lays it out there,