Magic the gathering, Warhammer, Video Games, even fantasy and scifi fiction, they all have had big I fights with right wingers in the last decade. The only exception I can think of maybe (MAYBE) would be DnD. Thoughts?
Filled with white male shut ins.
“When education is not liberating, the dream of the oppressed is to become the oppressor.”
WC just said no race is inherently evil and nerds shit out their doodoo ass cause they couldn’t roleplay racism.
counterpoint: leftism is nerd culture. what’s nerdier than reading a bunch of books written by dead guys lmao
Because they’re full of isolated, dejected life losers and that’s the type of personality attracted to fascist movements.
Failed your father’s expectations? Overweight and hideous? Crippling social anxiety and can’t have sex? Filled with disgust when you see other people having fun and living their best lives? Failing business? Can’t get or hold down a job? Have atrocious taste and no talent but insist that you plight in fortune and women is because no one understands you or have lost touch with traditional values?
BOY HAVE I GOT A MOVEMENT FOR YOU!
Dress in a uniform. Our propaganda portrays us as the peak of masculinity and vigorous, vital action. Return to your real roots. Have a docile homemaker and baby machine for a wife. Plus we know exactly who to blame for the tragedy that is your life.
I think a lot of the white dudes who participated in “nerd” cultures while growing up in the 2000s really internalized the idea of “being a nerd means to be shunned by society.” So when they hear that they can’t be oppressed because they’re white and male that contradicts directly with their worldview because honestly they were probably bullied as kids and probably do go on to work legitimately oppressive jobs at some point in their lives.
The fascists did a better job articulating to them why their lives were so shitty. It was easy because it was the first time everyone in the world had access to the internet on their smartphones and no one had developed an immune system against online reactionary rhetoric yet. That’s the main problem I think.
Fascism appeals to the asocial losers of comfortable society. The failsons of the striving petty bourgeois