It’s a consistent recurring theme in their propaganda, from the grotesque racial caricatures in Nazi publications like Der Sturmer to the modern day, where they represent their enemies with hideous soyjaks and portray transwomen as not just men, but unwashed, hairy neanderthals.
Yeah, you look at how chuds draw trans women as having beards when the men in the same drawings don’t, it’s crazy.
They associate morality with beautiful aesthetics. Why else do you think they post Roman statue shit or attractive women as tradwives? It’s because they think not following a certain aesthetic and beauty standard makes you evil or subhuman.
They associate morality with beautiful aesthetics.
Come to think of it, so does a lot of our popular culture (the fantasy genre has historically been especially bad about this).
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I think there’s legit a kernel of truth there. The tropes of “classical” fantasy have a lot of overlap with themes central to fascist ideology: bloodline as destiny, combat as the crucible of manhood, inherently evil races that can be killed without hesitation or remorse, romantic nostalgia for a “golden age,” male-centric storytelling, fixation on kings and monarchs, individual “great men” as the drivers and movers of history, evil as a sinister occult force that has no goals beyond corrupting and inflicting suffering upon what is pure and good. There’s nothing about fantasy as a genre that requires it to have these things, but they keep popping up because people uncritically copy what they already see or (less often) because the creators themselves are ideologically driven fascists.
Reactionaries look backwards. Fantasy is inherently a genre that looks backwards.
Communists look forwards. Science fiction is inherently a genre that looks forwards.
I’m not even remotely joking about this. Not all fantasy is fascist but a good deal of it includes fascist tropes. Meanwhile all science fiction that includes anything remotely fascist is plainly and obviously critical of it. There’s no “haha future scifi empire with slavery is good actually” takes, because that would be stupid. The fantasy empires with slavery are uniquely capable of pretending to be good because they can hide behind “well duh it’s a fantasy past setting, that stuff is just normal but these kingdoms are better than the evil alternatives surrounding them on all sides that they need to exterminate”.
Let’s not pretend there hasn’t been plenty of reactionary sci-fi (Heinlein, Orwell, Rand, David Weber, John Ringo, Vox Day, John C. Wright to name a few).
There’s no “haha future scifi empire with slavery is good actually”
I’d ask you to look into the World of Gor novels, but nobody deserves that.
If you create a story that includes objective subhumans(orcs) and don’t seriously engage with that, you’ve probably got some Hitler particles in you.
Pretty privilege is definitely a thing. I’ve really noticed the difference in how people treat me since I started looking ill and rough. Like I’m not even worthy of basic human decency now, I don’t even deserve to have my presence acknowledged.
there’s a lot of research indicating a stronger disgust response among the right, base revulsion is a prime psychic mover
bc they’re stupid animals driven by disgust and fear
It’s definitely about the “best” people being the fascist bloodlines - most attractive, most “civilized”, smartest, etc. which equals the most deserving of land, power, wealth at the expense of the ugly, stupid enemies who are morally bankrupt and deserve to be killed and have their stuff taken
And all guided by a subjective beauty standard
Along with phrenology, physiognomy, or the idea that you could determine certain fundamental behavioral or personality traits solely on the basis of appearance, is one of the handmaidens of eugenics, and it feeds into the fascist obsession with genetic determinism and gene pool “purity.”
But also, “You have lost because I’ve depicted you as the hideous monster and myself as the shining god become man” is a pretty universal propaganda tactic. Dr. Seuss’s depictions of the Germans and Japanese during WWII weren’t exactly flattering.
You have lost because I’ve depicted you as the hideous monster and myself as the shining god become man
Soyjaks and chads are going to be eternal, aren’t they?
Always have been
I wonder if you could trace it back to criminal anthropology as outlined by Lombroso in his book Criminal Man which was basically a manual for using phrenology to do pre-crime (kinda an oversimplification but he’s completely wrong anyway so idgaf). Of course all the characteristics he described as “criminal indicators” were racial stereotypes, class markers, or so broad as to be applicable to anyone you wanted to shove in the mould.
nsfw swastika
9 times out of 10 the goober on the other end looks like this.
They do it more often than normal people but denigrating your opponents based on their physical appearance is hardly the reserve of chuds.
Wielding self-hatred and insecurity comes naturally to people who don’t see any good in humanity
Chuds care more about appearance than substance. They don’t want to solve homelessness, they just don’t want to see them. They are elitist but also anti intellectual. Because intellectuals oppose their ideas. Remember old big brain wojacks
They were used to praise an opinion or idea. Now they are replaced with this
The 300 kg brain that makes unseen discoveries is gone. Replaced with muscles and a manly face. They don’t actually like smart people because smart people oppose their ideas but they still need an ideal person
mar-a-lago face is a thing and the entirety of maga won in part because of aesthetics.
