Dear America, You Need to Stop Dismissing Fascism as Mere Racism

History Repeats Itself When We Deliberately Ignore It. It’s Time to Wise Up. It’s Happening Here.

umair haque
Eudaimonia and Co
Published in
9 min readJul 18, 2019

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Here’s an ugly truth. One of the reasons that the bad guys are ripping the heart and soul out of America these days is the silence and passivity of the good guys.

Every time that you dismiss fascism as mere “racism”, “white nationalism”, “nativism”, “supremacy” — you are unwittingly helping the fascists. Even if you imagine you are a good person, you are making a contribution to their cause. Why? Because you are sugarcoating fascism. You are erasing it. You are denying it. Minimizing it away. You are saying: “it is not happening here”, while it is. Does all that make you complicit? That’s for you to judge. Let me illustrate what I mean.

There’s the President leading a chant of “send her back”, issuing tweets that attack the opposition by dehumanizing them. In response, America’s united — except the GOP, of course — and decided to condemn this as racist. Good enough, right? Wrong.

Imagine that you were an alien. You’d been sent on a secret mission to observe America, and report back, to the galactic court of justice, on what kind of political-economic system America had. What would you say?

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