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Extreme racist nationalism and extreme misogyny/ patriarchy are the two sides of the fascist coin. To fascists, the purpose of men is to fight and kill for the nation/leader, and the purpose of women is to produce babies for the nation/leader. If they're not doing that, they're worthless.
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Attended a lecture re: American Eugenics/German Racial Hygiene this week & learned Nazis seriously considered making it illegal for women to be single. Widows/divorcees were expected to remarry & keep having kids. Single mothers who didn't remarry would be euthanized.
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Anton Brakhage
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There is a quote, attributed to Mussolini, which summarizes the fascist view:

"War is to man what maternity is to a woman. From a philosophical and doctrinal viewpoint, I do not believe in perpetual peace."

War for the sake of war, men as warriors, and women as incubators for warriors.
05:21 PM - Dec 08, 2023
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Control of reproduction is absolutely central to fascism. This takes the form both of promoting births of certain children, and eliminating "undesirables" through forced sterilization and euthanasia (murder) of children deemed deficient. The fascists under Mussolini and the Nazis did all of these.
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The interplay between misogyny and racism is also evident in the white supremacists' fear interracial mixing and of non-white men coming and taking "their" women. This has been the pretext for many lynchings in the United States, and the characterization of Black men as sexually predatory.
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P01135809 invoked this in his infamous 2016 speech where he fear-mongered about Mexico "sending r*pists" to the United States.

It's also evident in the use of the slur c*ck or c*cked by the fascist Right.

https://www.the root.com/the-racist-roots-of-cuck-the-white-supremacists-favo-1797868917
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The relentless attacks on trans people, and anyone who steps out of assigned roles of gender and sexuality also fits this pattern- particularly, again, their characterization as sexual predators as a pretext for violence.
05:32 PM - Dec 08, 2023
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Misogyny, enforcement of "traditional gender roles", and control of reproduction are as central to fascism as white supremacy, and they go hand in hand, fueling each other.

The Republican campaign against abortion rights, even trying to kill patients and doctors, must be understood in this context.
05:34 PM - Dec 08, 2023
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If people die because they can't get an abortion, this is not a problem to fascists- if anything, its a benefit.

Remember where this thread started- with the fact that the Nazis considered euthanizing unmarried women.

If she's not making babies, she is literally better off dead to them.
05:37 PM - Dec 08, 2023
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Related to this are the strong parallels I've noted between the psychology, tactics, and rhetoric of domestic abusers, and those of authoritarians, particularly fascists.

Indeed, I would go so far as to say that "extreme toxic masculinity" is pretty close to a definition of fascism at its core.
05:41 PM - Dec 08, 2023
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