This is a very concerning story. He’s an academic who studies, talks and writes about antifascism, and just for that, not even for any antifascist activism, the fascists are threatening to kill him. And someone in the US government and/or the airline is helping them to achieve this by trapping him and his family in the country. They’re determined to persecute, and even kill, academics not for their views but for even discussing views that go against the fascist program.
I stopped trying to be the messenger when I realized I was preaching to a crowd of people who would rather shoot the messenger then believe they got tricked. There’s no future in salvation.
This is a very concerning story. He’s an academic who studies, talks and writes about antifascism, and just for that, not even for any antifascist activism, the fascists are threatening to kill him. And someone in the US government and/or the airline is helping them to achieve this by trapping him and his family in the country. They’re determined to persecute, and even kill, academics not for their views but for even discussing views that go against the fascist program.
Anti-fascists are always persecuted, usually outnumbered, and they are way more often the underdog than we’d like to think they are. One of the biggest dangers of fascism is that it is legitimately popular. People don’t know what’s best for them, they love a strongman, even when a small minority is willing to tell them exactly how that is going to go for them, they won’t believe it.
I stopped trying to be the messenger when I realized I was preaching to a crowd of people who would rather shoot the messenger then believe they got tricked. There’s no future in salvation.