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‘Eco-fascist’ violence targets old scapegoats for new fears

Mass shooting suspects, including the man arrested for the recent Buffalo, N.Y., grocery store massacre, are increasingly invoking the so-called eco-fascist movement, which launders racist and anti-immigrant conspiracy theories through the lens of environmentalism.

The Buffalo suspect, who has been charged with the murder of 10 predominantly Black shoppers at a grocery store, identified as an eco-fascist. Similar sentiments can be found in the writings of shooters in New Zealand and El Paso, Texas, who targeted Muslims and Latinos, respectively.

As the climate crisis intensifies and leads to increased migration and political instability, experts say the problem is likely to get worse.

In practice, the term refers to “a kind of political ideology that combines fascism with some kind of environmental or ecological focus,” said Matthew Lyons, author of “Insurgent Supremacists: The U.S. Far Right’s Challenge to State and Empire” and co-author with Chip Berlet of “Right-Wing Populism in America.”

Typically, Lyons said, this equates to scapegoating groups like immigrants and nonwhites for the climate crisis, environmental degradation and the depletion of natural resources.

It’s not “the Right” which is doing this…I mean, technically, it is, since Progressivism is not actually far left, but, far right on the political scale, in the Authoritarian model, but, we still call them “The Left”…it is the far left. This is also an attempt to explain away why these mass murderers share so much in common with Progressives

Eco-fascism is at heart simply a rebranding of a much older “murderous political strategy,” said Cassie Miller, a senior research analyst at the Southern Poverty Law Center, and uses environmental concerns as a sort of Trojan horse for extremist ideas.

“This is a movement that is looking for any avenue that it can get recruits or to enter larger political conversations,” she said. “And the language of environmentalism, especially at a time of climate disaster, is a very clear way to do that.”

I’m sure that somehow this is all your fault, you know.

Later in the 20th century, Ted Kaczynski, who killed three people and injured 23 more with a series of bombings, wrote a manifesto decrying the Industrial Revolution and calling for a return to nature; however, he also railed against feminists, gay rights activists and animal welfare advocates in the same document.

Although Kaczynski also blasts conservative politics in his writings, in recent years, far-right spaces online have semi-ironically celebrated Kaczynski as “Uncle Ted.”

See? They’re going to attempt to blame Republicans for this, and like minded small government Classical Liberals around the world. Which shifts the blame off the real culprit, a doomsday cult.

Meanwhile, Real Climate Science links to this

(India Times) Art lovers and museum visitors to the Louvre were shocked recently after a man dressed as an old woman tried vandalising the Mona Lisa. The person jumped out of a wheelchair and reportedly smeared cake over the iconic painting.

A clip showing visitors taking photos of the cake-covered painting has now been widely circulated on social media. Fortunately, the cake didn’t touch the real artwork. It was only smeared over the glass that protects the famous piece by Leonardo da Vinci.

Maybe this is just nuts to me????but an man dressed as an old lady jumps out of a wheel chair and attempted to smash the bullet proof glass of the Mona Lisa. Then proceeds to smear cake on the glass, and throws roses everywhere all before being tackled by security. ??????? pic.twitter.com/OFXdx9eWcM

— Lukeee???? (@lukeXC2002) May 29, 2022

Definitely MAGA, right?

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