It’s simple:
Killing is bad, killing fascists is good.
Body shaming is bad, body shaming fascists is good.
The issue is that when you post a meme making fun of a chud for their physical appearance, you are casting a wide net that makes other people with that physical appearance feel shitty even if they’re not a chud.
I have a jaw that can pound nails (so pol-face doesn’t really get to me), but have a really scraggly beard that looks basically like the soyface wojak. But then I look around, at other 20-something white guys, and the thing is, like 70% of us have scraggly beards like the soyface wojak. That’s just what 20-something white guys look like now. And you have to admire that kind of effectiveness; the ability to make people insecure about having a physical feature that basically a majority of people in their demographic have.
But I have to wonder how many dudes see those memes making fun of people for their appearance and think, “Wait, I look like that… is there something wrong with how I look?” And causing that kind of existential despair is the point, when you’re using them as a weapon against chuds, or when chuds use them as a weapon against us - but are also why just posting a meme to our own community that says “If you have a weak chin or a scraggly beard or smile too much (etc.) like this dude you are an object worthy of ridicule” is pepper-spraying into the wind.
pepper-spraying into the wind
that’s a great description. I’m not advocating that you don’t verbally emotionally pepper spray a fash, just that you do so while carefully consider your surroundings
In fact, I think the himmler post in question is a great example, the irony of the post is not haha weak chin, but haha these losers think that’s a terrible flaw and even their revered leaders had that ‘terrible flaw’
Yeah, obviously this post is not a great example - if you can make fun of anyone’s physical features, it’s literal and specific fascists. Posting a picture of Himmler and saying “Himmler is an object of ridicule because he has a weak chin” is mostly fine and unlikely to rub off on non-fascists with weak chins. Same goes with Leafy’s chin, Peterson’s Elmo voice, etc. But the more generic caricatures that are basically just “You have [Physical Feature]? You look weird and you’re probably a fascist!” can unintentionally harm our atypically-shaped comrades.
There is little to no possibility of hurting a comrade in hypothetical execution of fascist but there is a non zero possibility of hurting a comrade while body-shaming fascists.
History shows us that the former isn’t necessarily true at all. Many innocent people have died as a consequence of necessary violence against fascists.
For example, launching an artillery barrage or dropping a bomb on fascist positions in Stalingrad carried with it the possibility of said shells or bombs landing on civilians or Red Army soldiers.
