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“Another strategy has been the promotion of “alternative facts.” This concept makes no sense ideologically or linguistically, yet it rose to prominence during the Trump era. Its goal is to establish false equivalence and to create doubt where there should be no uncertainty. For instance, presenting climate change as a “debate” rather than an established scientific consensus on the basis of which varied policy approaches could be considered is a means of immobilizing policy action.”
― David Pakman, The Echo Machine: How Right-Wing Extremism Created a Post-Truth America

“The worse the atrocity, the more the public proclaimed that #WeArentAshamed (NamNeStydno). They believed in their crusade. They believed they were purifying Russia—a country that exists wherever Moscow has once reigned and wherever Russian is spoken”
― Ian Garner, Z Generation: Into the Heart of Russia's Fascist Youth

“Racial identity is willed or imposed, or both; it has no foundation outside of social experience. Nor, therefore, is racial ancestry or heritage a real thing other than through will or imposition. There are no racial imperatives that demand expression of particular attitudes, behavior, or social practices. Simply put, racial heritage cannot be denied or rejected because there's no such thing as racial heritage. In biological terms, saying "I am black" and "I am not black" are equally meaningless statements.”
― Adolph L. Reed Jr., The South: Jim Crow and Its Afterlives

“The fascist project focuses all its military, religious, and cultural energy on achieving this regeneration—even if that means sacrificing its own people, destroying its economic resources, or acting in any other way irrationally. The fascist, after all, perceives the world in mythical terms. Reality need not get in the way of chasing fantasy.”
― Ian Garner, Z Generation: Into the Heart of Russia's Fascist Youth