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Anti-fascsist action and debate

I am regularly asked why i provide links to websites with racist, bigotted or inflammatory content, such as the BNP website. Most people see this as abhorrant dissemination of fascist propoganda and disinformation. It is.

However, the fact that it is propoganda, disinformation or just poorly-researched, contradictory nonsense, does not mean that people don't believe it. 'Know your enemy' as Maxim magazine tells us. The fact that they are talking about womens magazines does not make i t a less valuable lesson. The idea is the same.

It is all too easy to think of Nazis as brainless bootboys or bogeymen, but they are real people with real houses and real mortgages. The only way to spot a Nazi is to understand their beliefs and know their arguments

I recently recieved an email from a guy who vehemently denied he was a fascist, yet believed that Britain should restore the Empire to it's former glory. This is exactly the type of 'glory days' nostalgia that ensnares people and leads to the BNP winning a seat in local government. The British Empire was built by self-righteous bootboys who went around the world kicking the crap out of the natives and stealing their country. It hardly respected cultural diversity and difference of political beliefs.

Thanks in part (whole?) to the media, people are scared that Nazi terrorists or child pornographers are going to climb out of their computer screens and blow them up or steal their children. The belief is that the more people that get access to nazi websites, the more people will become nazis. This is a passive-receptive view of human in formation-gathering and it is totally wrong. I spend hours reading fascist literature, it doesn't make me a nazi and i haven't gone blind. Let's get real.

As Douglas Rushkoff says in his fantastic book children of chaos: "Where i've argued for a freer media, my opponents eventually bring up Hitler as the dangerous end result of an unregulated mediaspace. Nothing could be further from the truth. If anything, his reign of terror was aided by his careful control of print and radio. The allies, who didn't realise that Hitler was using recording tape, were frequently baffled by his ability to broadcast his voice from different locations. A Hitler does not result from the ability of communities to network through technology in a free-form fashion. He results from the monopolization of technology and the instilling of fear and paranoia in a culture that must get it's information from a single source, rather than from one another." Douglas Rushkoff (1996) Children of Chaos, HarperCollins, p200.

With access to fascist websites we can monitor the surface activities of this insidious secton of our own population, read the lies they are telling and more effectively recognise and combat fascism and hatred.