Hellen’s Reviews > How Fascism Works: The Politics of Us and Them > Status Update

The idea that unions can help fend off potential fascist policy from running rampant is attractive. The way they can break apart racial and political lines to build community. Too bad our government is set on union busting and unions themselves have their own set of issues within an individualistic society.

Loved the chapter on sexual anxiety, wish it was a little longer though

Chapter on victimhood was not my favorite chapter. I thought the ideas were interesting, but it just felt like it was trying to hit two ideas at once and didn’t explain either really well.

It always felt weird when right-winged commentators said that certain policies, especially anti-LGBT or immigration policies, upheld what we find in “nature”. It’s a stupid justification, and non-scientifically supported claim, to uphold hierarchies that only benefit them. Losers fr.

“Such attempts to legislate the erasure of a nations past are characteristic of fascist regimes.” Meanwhile we’re seeing the erasure of teachings about Southern slavery and the dismantling of the US Department of Education.