wolix @maj@computerfairi.es

I've been talking with like some normcore Germans recently and unintentionally let the topic get to the rise of fascism, and what came of it is that most people here don't see fascists as a *physical* threat, to them in particular. the fact that they are German and white means they never underwent street harassment for political, let alone violence. they think this is some niche thing that happens rarely and to someone else.

I don't have to ask to know that their threat model puts Islamist terrorism as a higher threat for them than nazis. I'm not even talking about the racism, I'm talking of this big glaring failure in their threat model.

like once someone asked me, as a loaded question, if I'm ok with some of us sacrificing ourselves, then (because I defend direct action). and I was like, the nazis have stockpiled weapons and post them on social media and romanticise pogroms in shooting galleries and tell us directly, "soon all of you will be hanging from the lamppost", etc. in what timeline do you live in that you imagine that does *not* involve them shooting at us? do you think what, we're going to get Die Linke in power at some point and the 30% of AfD voters will be like, oh welp, we lost, time to sell all those piles of ammunition on kleinanzeigen? let's close all the little nazi farms with the nazi communities running nazi schools to teach little nazi children how to be nazis and turn them to Montessouri?

what people here miss is that both times I was attacked with violence, it wasn't because I was trans, or immigrant, or confrontational. I didn't dress "political" back then, I didn't have tattoos, it was too cold for my body to be visible, and I pass as white. no one thinks I'm an immigrant until I speak, and even then they think I'm from somewhere in Europe, because Germans generally don't know that white people live in the third world, and nazis aren't known for their socieogeographical sophistication. no, in both cases where they made a first move and finally gave me the excuse to beat up some nazis, the trigger was, the nazis saw me removing white supremacy or pro-Hitler stickers that they had put on public spaces. (I've been also harassed many many times for looking queer or dressing political, but every time so far they backed down upon confrontation; the times where I was downright assaulted, it was due to the sticker wars).

when you create a character for me in Tomodachi Life, don't forget my catchphrase: "you may not be interested in violence, but the violence is interested in you."

say you're on a major tram stop downtown and see a sticker that says "white race" (in English) and has a little logo of soldiers with raised hands (in German). do you remove the sticker, or do you lower your head and walk on? if you pick 1 congratulations, you are also currently under the risk of being bashed with a metal bat, as much as I was. the other day a young German couple was attacked with machetes in Berlin, and the trigger was they were seen leaving a leftie bar. the violence is already here and has been for years. if you pick 2 then I guess you can enjoy a violence-free life for a few more lines of that poem.