onehandedly:tombliboos:it’s so funny that after years of “stormtrooper merch breeds...

onehandedly:

tombliboos:

it’s so funny that after years of “stormtrooper merch breeds fascists” and “bad boy romance creates right-wing militias” the guys who stormed capitol hill were dressed as captain america and thor with a mandalorian helmet

That is utterly unsurprising. 
As a woman from Rome that is into Tolkien I knew ever since my childhood that one of our neofascist groups told its member that they were like Faramir.
And that pissed me off to no end.

Still, it made sense. Fanatics are not interested in gray characters or villains: they want to be the faultless, blameless hero who triumphs in the end.
They do not want to question and a narrative that questions them is disturbing to their very worldview.

This is just another rebranding of taking anything and using it as the face of whatever fascism you’re promoting. There are no real Christians and no real Muslims who are fascists. There are just fascists using the names of religions as a weapon of hatred and terror. Captain America is not about insurrection and would never have disrespected Nancy Pelosi’s office and stolen her mail. Islam is not about terrorism. Christianity is not a hate group. This is just about assholes in whatever place and time using whatever facade they think will give their pathetic cause a boost of legitimacy, becaus they know that without it they’ll just be seen as the weak little worms they are and that their “cause” isn’t a cause, has no integrity, and has nothing to do with societal-level issues.