#antifascist coding

[zomb13s]

The White Stones of Reaction: Go, Democracy, and the Networked Counter-Offensive in the Work of Alfons Scholing

AbstractThis paper analyzes Alfons Scholing’s self-described position as the “white stones” in the game of Go—a reactive yet principled stance against an initiating “black stone” of ideological aggression. Framed through Scholing’s digital corpus (2013-2025), we examine how his trans-cultural philosophy , technical systems , and autobiographical narratives model a democratic resistance to fascist…

[mostlysignssomeportents]

Premature Internet Activists

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"Premature antifacist" was a sarcastic term used by leftists caught up in the Red Scare to describe themselves, as they came under ideological suspicion for having traveled to Spain to fight against Franco's fascists before the US entered WWII and declared war against the business-friendly, anticommunist fascist Axis powers of Italy, Spain, and, of course, Germany:

https://www.google.com/books/edition/In_Denial/fBSbKS1FlegC?hl=en&gbpv=1&bsq=%22premature+anti-fascist%22&pg=PA277&printsec=frontcover

The joke was that opposing fascism made you an enemy of America – unless you did so after the rest of America had woken up to the existential threat of a global fascist takeover. What's more, if you were a "premature antifascist," you got no credit for fighting fascism early on. Quite the contrary: fighting fascism before the rest of the US caught up with you didn't make you prescient – it made you a pariah.

I've been thinking a lot about premature antifascism these days, as literal fascists use the internet to coordinate a global authoritarian takeover that represents an existential threat to a habitable planet and human thriving. In light of that, it's hard to argue that the internet is politically irrelevant, and that fights over the regulation, governance, and structure of the internet are somehow unserious.

And yet, it wasn't very long ago that tech policy was widely derided as a frivolous pursuit, and that tech organizing was dismissed as "slacktivism":

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2010/10/04/small-change-malcolm-gladwell

Elevating concerns about the internet's destiny to the level of human rights struggle was delusional, a glorified argument about the rules for forums where sad nerds argued about Star Trek. If you worried that Napster-era copyright battles would make it easy to remove online content by claiming that it infringed copyright, you were just carrying water for music pirates. If you thought that legalizing and universalizing encryption technology would safeguard human rights, you were a fool who had no idea that real human rights battles involved confronting Bull Connor in the streets, not suing the NSA in a federal courtroom.

And now here we are. Congress has failed to update consumer privacy law since 1988 (when they banned video store clerks from blabbing about your VHS rentals). Mass surveillance enables everything from ransomware, pig butchering and identity theft to state surveillance of "domestic enemies," from trans people to immigrants. What's more, the commercial and state surveillance apparatus are, in fact, as single institution: states protect corporations from privacy law so that corporations can create and maintain population-scale nonconsensual dossiers on all the intimate facts of our lives, which governments raid at will, treating them as an off-the-books surveillance dragnet:

https://pluralistic.net/2023/08/16/the-second-best-time-is-now/#the-point-of-a-system-is-what-it-does

Our speech forums have been captured by billionaires who censor anti-oligarchic political speech, and who spy on dissident users in order to aid in political repression. Bogus copyright claims are used to remove or suppress disfavorable news reports of elite rapists, thieves, war criminals and murderers:

https://pluralistic.net/2024/06/27/nuke-first/#ask-questions-never

You'd be hard pressed to find someone who'd describe the fights over tech governance in 2025 as frivolous or disconnected from "real politics"

This is where the premature antifascist stuff comes in. An emerging revisionist history of internet activism would have you believe that the first generation of tech liberation activists weren't fighting for a free, open internet – we were just shilling for tech companies. The P2P wars weren't about speech, privacy and decentralization – they were just a way to help the tech sector fight the entertainment industry. DRM fights weren't about preserving your right to repair, to privacy, and to accessibility – they were just about making it easy to upload movies to Kazaa. Fighting for universal access to encryption wasn't about defending everyday people from corporate and state surveillance – it was just a way to help terrorists and child abusers stay out of sight of cops.

Of course, now these fights are all about real things. Now we need to worry about centralization, interoperability, lock-in, surveillance, speech, and repair. But the people – like me – who've been fighting over this stuff for a quarter-century? We've gone from "unserious fools who mistook tech battles for human rights fights" to "useful idiots for tech companies" in an eyeblink.

"Premature Internet Activists," in other words.

This isn't merely ironic or frustrating – it's dangerous. Approaching tech activism without a historical foundation can lead people badly astray. For example, many modern tech critics think that Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act (which makes internet users liable for illegal speech acts, while immunizing entities that host that speech) is a "giveaway to Big Tech" and want to see it abolished.

Boy is this dangerous. CDA 230 is necessary for anyone who wants to offer a place for people to meet and discuss anything. Without CDA 230, no one could safely host a Mastodon server, or set up the long-elusive federated Bluesky servers. Hell, you couldn't even host a group-chat or message board:

https://www.techdirt.com/2020/06/23/hello-youve-been-referred-here-because-youre-wrong-about-section-230-communications-decency-act/

Getting rid of CDA 230 won't get rid of Facebook or make it clean up its act. It will just make it impossible for anyone to offer an alternative to Facebook, permanently enshrining Zuck's dominance over our digital future. That's why Mark Zuckerberg wants to kill Section 230:

https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news/zuckerberg-calls-changes-techs-section-230-protections-rcna486

Defending policies that make it easier to host speech isn't the same thing as defending tech companies' profits, though these do sometimes overlap. When tech platforms have their users' back – even for self-serving reasons – they create legal precedents and strong norms that protect everyone. Like when Apple stood up to the FBI on refusing to break its encryption:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple%E2%80%93FBI_encryption_dispute

If Apple had caved on that one, it would be far harder for, say, Signal to stand up to demands that it weaken its privacy guarantees. I'm no fan of Apple, and I would never mistake Tim Cook – who owes his CEOhood to his role in moving Apple production to Chinese sweatshops that are so brutal they had to install suicide nets – for a human rights defender. But I cheered on Apple in its fight against the FBI, and I will cheer them again, if they stand up to the UK government's demand to break their encryption:

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c20g288yldko

This doesn't make me a shill for Apple. I don't care if Apple makes or loses another dime. I care about Apple's users and their privacy. That's why I criticize Apple when they compromise their users' privacy for profit:

https://pluralistic.net/2024/01/12/youre-holding-it-wrong/#if-dishwashers-were-iphones

The same goes for fights over scraping. I hate AI companies as much as anyone, but boy is it a mistake to support calls to ban scraping in the name of fighting AI:

https://pluralistic.net/2023/09/17/how-to-think-about-scraping/

It's scraping that lets us track paid political disinformation on Facebook (Facebook isn't going to tell us about it):

https://pluralistic.net/2021/08/05/comprehensive-sex-ed/#quis-custodiet-ipsos-zuck

And it's scraping that let us rescue all the CDC and NIH data that Musk's broccoli-hair brownshirts deleted on behalf of DOGE:

https://www.cnet.com/tech/services-and-software/how-to-access-important-health-info-thats-been-scrubbed-from-the-cdc-site/

It's such a huge mistake to assume that anything corporations want is bad for the internet. There are many times when commercial interests dovetail with online human rights. That's not a defense of capitalism, it's a critique of capitalism that acknowledges that profits do sometimes coincide with the public interest, an argument that Marx and Engels devote Chapter One of The Communist Manifesto to:

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/10/31/books/review/a-spectre-haunting-china-mieville.html

In the early 1990s, Al Gore led the "National Information Infrastructure" hearings, better known as the "Information Superhighway" hearings. Gore's objective was to transfer control over the internet from the military to civilian institutions. It's true that these institutions were largely (but not exclusively) commercial entities seeking to make a buck on the internet. It's also true that much of that transfer could have been to public institutions rather than private hands.

But I've lately – and repeatedly – heard this moment described (by my fellow leftists) as the "privatization" of the internet. This is strictly true, but it's even more true to say that it was the demilitarization of the internet. In other words, corporations didn't take over functions performed by, say, the FCC – they took over from the Pentagon. Leftists have no business pining for the days when the internet was controlled by the Department of Defense.

Caring about the technological dimension of human rights 30 years ago – or hell, 40 years ago – doesn't make you a corporate stooge who wanted to launch a thousand investment bubbles. It makes you someone who understood, from the start, that digital rights are human rights, that cyberspace would inevitably evert into meatspace, and that the rules, norms and infrastructure we built for the net would someday be as consequential as any other political decision.

I'm proud to be a Premature Internet Activist. I just celebrated my 23rd year with the Electronic Frontier Foundation, and yesterday, we sued Elon Musk and DOGE:

https://www.eff.org/press/releases/eff-sues-opm-doge-and-musk-endangering-privacy-millions

If you'd like an essay-formatted version of this post to read or share, here's a link to it on pluralistic.net, my surveillance-free, ad-free, tracker-free blog:

https://pluralistic.net/2025/02/13/digital-rights/#are-human-rights

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[rotzaprachim]

never getting over the insane möbius strip of Star Wars decolonial/antifascist ideology and who it appeals to like hey all we need to defeat the entire concept of Empire is friendship and a couple of assault rifles! Things will be dandy if we shoot enough people! How do we know who to shoot uhhhh it’s due to their near color coding which marks out an inherently good person from an inherently evil one just trust us bro

[a-door-to-somewhere]

My thoughts on andor s2.1-2.3!!!!

I literally sat down to take notes because I knew I wouldn't remember everything.

- the episode opening with the time grappler's gong (according to the subtitles)!!!

- KAFRENE being the code;-;

- can confirm cassian is cute

- love the opening scene juxtaposed with the other opening scenes of s1 and rogue one- here he doesn't end up killing an informant. He inspires her to rise instead. Totally thought she was gonna die tho

- my CRINGEFAIL PRINCESS being unable to fly the ship at first i LOVE him

- that green weapon on the ship is totally kyber powered or something

- the arch collapsing as he flies through it mirroring jedha

- BEE IS BACK

- I wanna hexagonal bed like bix's

- loving that vel dyed her hair. Or maybe it was bleached in the first season and this is her natural color? Closer to man's?

- luthen in the dark purple velvet..... what a queen

- cassian got away "clean" mmmm poor choice of words

- the inherent sluttiness of a flightsuit. To me.

- KRENNIC

- Ghorman being a highly regarded seat of luxury due to its traditional fiber arts. Someone's been doing their homework on actual antifascist revolutions.

- velkleya exes real???

- leida crying because "he's just a child" is so heartbreaking on so many levels...

- I'm so glad that we don't get any characterization of leida's fiance. We don't know if he's as awful as Davo or if he's also unwilling because it doesn't matter how good or bad of a person he is; the marriage is still a trap.

- cassian: ....I'm surrounded by idiots.....

- fr this man was lowkey sidelined as the comedic plot for two episodes in his own show

- I'm not made though because we got a show of cassian drinking from a dog bowl out of it ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)

- honestly though I don't hate the plot line. It's literally leftist infighting. They're hungry. They're tired. There's limited resources and knowledge and everyone's got a gun and nobody's sure who is in charge. And there's a beast in the forest, and it doesn't care who it eats.

- does cassian being referred to as "the pilot" count as bodhi crumbs

- fucking rock paper scissors....

- love that syril and dedra (who apparently live together now) are legitimately nervous for eedy. Dedra is legit twitchy in a way that she wasn't around her own highly dangerous work superiors

- when dedra GAGGED eedy

- I too go lie face down on my mattress for a few precious seconds when my tiring relatives are around

- eedy making a mess and dismissing it. Theyre so good at making her utterly despicable.

- I love how they aren't mincing words this season. Bix and Brasso aren't just allegories to immigration in the US, they *are* literal illegal laborers. Theyre talking about actual visas. There's no question that the Empire-ICE are the evil ones.

- in the same way. The scene with bix and the imp was so so real. I'm so glad they actually had her say the word "rape" just in case there are any willfully ignorant watchers. I'm so glad they went there.

- the details in the set... maarva's picture by the comms. The AT-ST marionette toy. The houseplants. The droid daycare. It's not just a wheat planet. It's got culture, community.

- brassian kiss but at what cost....

- fr tho it makes me legitimate so happy to see male intimacy (whether platonic or not) portrayed so healthily on screen. I mean as healthily as you can get in a death scene

- CINTA

- I love that a single look destroyed vel. Augh

- Tay is sooooo dead cinta ain't gonna blink twice

[blaka-smoko]

my name’s Elly. 33 year-old socialist, antifascist, perpetually tired tech worker, raging autist, and a biroace genderqueer dyke (they/them).

I mainly enjoy comics and manga, reading, drawing, writing, studying Japanese, and learning how to code and build old-school websites. I struggle with burnout pretty regularly, but try to enjoy myself whenever I have the energy. I also run an Eyeshield 21 sideblog as a companion to my very under construction fansite!

I reblog and post a lot of different things, but try to tag and add trigger/content warnings for anything too unsavory. let me know if you need anything specific tagged!

[socialistexan]

The more I watch Doctor Who, the more I love the 7th Doctor. If you're a modern Who fan who is interested in the classics and anyone tells you to skip 7's era, they're doing you a massive disservice.

Aside from the fact every Doctor is worth watching, Sylvester McCoy's time on the show produced some of the most smart, innovative, intriguing, and experimental stories for the show ever. It tried out new filming styles that feel more at home with the 2005 revival than the seasons proceeding it. It has a special kind of campy charm that made the show so special.

People are allowed to not like McCoy's run on the show, but I'm willing to bet most of these people only watched the dreadful 1st season when the show was trying to shake off a very stagnant era. 7's last two seasons are sincerely maybe the two best seasons the show produced ever, including the modern series.

The Greatest Show in the Galaxy is a very smart meta-commentary on the show itself while also providing a solid and colorful sci-fi story. Ghostlight is an experimental, queer-coded ghost story. Remembrance of the Daleks is possibly the best Dalek story ever written with some strong antifascist undercurrent. The Curse of Fenric did more the set the stage for modern Doctor Who than maybe any story before it.

I think if the show hasn't been cancelled directly after, people wouldn't look down in this era. The cancellation was decided before McCoy even took over on the show, and imo the freedom the creative team had from the lack of expectations really opened them up to some amazing story telling.

If they had gotten even one more season together, McCoy and Sophie Aldred's Ace would give Tom Baker and Lis Slanden a run for their money as the greatest Doctor and Companion pairing ever.

[the-most-humble-blog]

🚨 TAGGED & TRIGGERED: WHEN “LESBIAN” ISN’T A SLUR—JUST A SEARCH FILTER 🚨

💣 Let’s get something f*cking straight, toots:

“This is satire. If the shoe fits, it’s probably your Etsy bio.”

First Off. Calm Down.

You sound Crazy.

Tagging a pattern ≠ bigotry. Tagging a behavior ≠ phobia. Tagging a predictable cluster of rage-posting bullsh*t with the same identity marker? That’s just organizational excellence.

And if seeing the word “lesbian” on a post about unhinged misandry gave you flashbacks to your sociology class trauma journal— that’s not my fault.

🧠 You weren’t “attacked.” You just didn’t like that someone finally connected your behavior to its demographic origin.

Because I’m not tagging your sexuality. I’m tagging your fcking rhetoric.*

You know what I'm talking about:

🌪 “lesbian. neurodivergent. she/they. trauma witch. antifascist fairy. misandry stan.” Cool lore. Now explain why 9 out of 10 posts reading like:

“Men should be sterilized at birth, teehee”

…somehow come from that exact combo.

REALITY DROP:

📊 72% of Tumblr’s male-hate essays—the ones loaded with “all men are trash,” “men are inherently evil,” “male tears make me wet” energy—come from lesbian-coded users.

🧵 Posts tagged #killallmen explode 4x faster when also tagged #wlw, #femme, or #dykecore.

📍 91% of users crying “homophobia” over tags? Were never mentioned by name. They saw the mirror—and punched it.

You’re not being targeted. You’re being categorized. And if you mistake a label for violence, maybe log off the internet and open a f*cking book.

You don’t get a free pass because of what you do with your genitals. You don’t get to throw grenades and cry when someone identifies who’s tossing them.

You act like men are subhuman, emotional trash bins, walking trauma triggers— But when someone tags that behavior as a pattern, you go:

“bUt tHaT’s hOmOpHoBiC—”

Shut the f*ck up.

It’s not homophobic. It’s Excel for people with pattern recognition.

🧬 This ain’t Hogwarts, babe. “Lesbian” isn’t a magic word that shields you from accountability.

If I tag a post “lesbian,” it’s because it came from the same pipeline of Tumblr-coded bitterness where identity is armor and man-hate is currency.

You wanna post like a f*cking psycho and wrap it in soft fonts, frog emojis, and “trauma girl summer” vibes?

Then own the tag. It’s not meant to erase you. It’s meant to warn others.

Here’s the uncomfortable truth:

🩸 Some of the most violent, entitled, hypocritical, unhinged behavior online isn’t coming from frat bros or alt-right chuds— It’s coming from self-described “femmes” with anime avis, locked bios, and rage diaries about how men shouldn’t be allowed to breathe.

But because they’re lesbian or non-men or queer-coded neurofae witchcraft goblins— We’re supposed to treat that as empowerment?

Nah. I’m not handing out identity-based hall passes.

You wanna know why I tag it? Because my followers deserve a warning.

That behavior isn’t just edgy. It’s narcissistic. And I refuse to pretend like people spewing misandry dressed in rainbow flags deserve extra kindness because of who they f*ck.

You hate men? Fine. You think you’re untouchable because you hate them with glitter on? Nah. You’re just boring and logged in too long.

⚠️ If a man posted “All women should be controlled” – you’d lose your goddamn mind.

But when some trauma-thirsty lesbian writes “Men should be muzzled and neutered,” You reblog it with a skull emoji and a dopamine rush.

🤡 You don’t hate oppression. You hate equality in accountability.

So let’s lock this in permanently:

🧠 A tag isn’t an attack. 🧠 Lesbian isn’t a slur. 🧠 And you don’t get to act like a digital warlord and cry “triggered” when someone sorts your behavior into a folder labeled “unhinged misandrist LARPing as social justice.”

If that shoe fits?

Lace it up and go for a walk, Dumbass.

🧠 REBLOG if you’re done pretending identity = immunity 💀 COMMENT if you’ve ever been dogpiled for simply naming what you see 👣 FOLLOW for truthposts, tagrage, and the most savage blog online

[thenixkat]

They're explaining what's going on in this issue but I'm just vibing with antifascist rebel scientist-spy-armer Ted Kord. Even if he's a clone. I'm vibing with this energy. The acting like a baffoon as a part of a ruse to get folks to underestimate him and the 'yeah, we gotta kill Maxwell Lord/Lord Havok it's the only way to free this world from his imperialistic tyranny'

(Justice League America Annual #10)

[also just free reminder that Ted Kord/Blue Beetle 2 is not a superhero with a no-killing code. He'd rather not cause unnecessary and excessive pain, but he's willing to end a bitch if he has to]

[thepoliticalvulcan]

If you can Blue No Matter Who Biden, there is zero reason you can’t Blue No Matter Who Harris, Whitmer, Buttigeg, Newsom et al.

I’m at a loss for how you can trust your fellow citizens to follow their self interest and their principles when they have concerns about the fitness of the candidate to have nuclear weapons, but you fully expect them to decry someone else without the same potential issues as illegitimate and even more doomed.

I’m a glass half full person: I want to believe that my fellow citizens will do the right thing because the stakes are so grave even if their preferred backup nominee doesn’t get picked.

But the people who are aggressively trying to silence this debate are precisely the people convincing me through vitriol, shame, gaslighting, and degrees of coded and overt racism* that actually I can’t trust my fellow antifascists but it’s not the ones who have been voicing concerns for a year, two years, three years, or four years I can’t trust to stay in the tent if they don’t get their way. They’re not the ones trying to shut everyone else up and in some cases lying about media coverage of this.

BlueAnon is real and it saddens me greatly to see it.

*Both racism as in using dog whistles about the unelectability of Harris, Booker etc as well as homogenizing Black voters and making sweeping generalizations about their priorities and loyalties.

[robinreturnstotumbler]

hey I'm Robin

gene belcher coded

pronouns: he/they in English, él/elle in Spanish

age: late twenties

gender: queer

sexuality: queer

blog is occasionally nsfw

in this house we are sex positive, kink positive, queer, pro-sexwork, antifascist, anti-racist, anti-sexist, and anti-genocide

I don't tag my posts or my queue, but please ask me to tag your triggers and I will do so

[stillnaomi]

Regarding free speech as a civilizational imperative: the idea, sometimes unacknowledged, is that an erosion of civil liberties represents or is synonymous with a decline of Western values. Yet, this is not actually an erosion, but a perception of change based on personal grievance, for during no period of US history have civil liberties been universally applied. In this worldview, free speech functions as a bellwether of modernity, pursuant to the status of the civilization at large. It is less a metric of freedom than a lament about a receding cultural superiority due to the unwelcome presence of demographics against which the West has traditionally defined itself as superior...The threats arise from a cross-section of the uncivilized: Black people, trans people, Muslims, communists, migrants, antifascists, queers of varying stripes—coded as the woke, the deviant, the dogmatic.

The Free Speech Exception to Palestine by Steven Salaita

(currently free to read or download on 3rd of October 2024)

[conferenceproceedings-crimson]

What is the Purpose of Trying to Discredit Liberalism and The Idea of Democracy? Crimson Publishers

What is the Purpose of Trying to Discredit Liberalism and The Idea of Democracy? by Dzhamal Mutagirov In Integrative Journal of Conference Proceedings

Annotation

World monitors the continued strengthening of the international tension and continuing attacks some countries ‘governing elites’ to each other with astonishment and concern. This occurs under soothing statements about “end of the cold war”. The situation is like such of 1930 ‘s when, supposedly, also “there wasn’t any war” but, as Sir Winston Churchill [1] admitted later, “English-speaking peoples through their unwisdom carelessness and good nature allowed the wicked to rearm” [1-6]. The 75 anniversaries of the victory over fascism will be celebrated soon. Antifascist struggle had initiated the Global democratic revolution. Over the years, humankind has committed grand gallop forward, ended with colonialism, with external manifestations of racism, apartheid, had adopted the International Code of Human and Peoples ‘ Rights, committed scientific, technical, cultural, information and other revolutions. All this had enabled him to achieve very remarkable progress in all spheres of life. However, at the turn of the Millennia the story took an unexpected turn, the meaning of which remains an enigma. Using historical, logical and comparative methods allows to reveal the enigma.

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[victusinveritas]

In light of everything, I think it is vital for community self-defense that local queer communities (in Murica, where all of this is legal because Freedom, can't speak to those of you elsewhere) form a companies of hammerers, halberdiers, and hackbuts (old-timey guns, but if you want to bring new-timey guns too that's great and probably, you know, better), as part of a well-regulated militia. What that well-regulated militia goes on to do, all within the bounds of local and federal legal codes of course, is up to you. Make this year's Pride a show of fearless antifascist force and queer joy. Queer landsknechts everywhere (so just landsknechts with slightly more rainbow banners and ribbons).

These guys are about as straight as flamberge.

Absolutely iconic limp wrist from your center halberdier there. Limp wrist, raised hammer!

[webionaire]

bare-chested, wild-eyed white man in bearskin furs and a horned helmet stood at the podium of the Senate chambers, his fists raised in triumph, as fellow Trump-supporting rioters laid waste to the Capitol. The man, a QAnon cultist from Phoenix named Jacob Anthony Chansley, who goes by the name Jake Angeli, has since been arrested alongside a few dozen others, but not before the far-right social mediasphere tried to paint him as an “antifa spy” planted among the insurrectionists. The efforts at misdirection were in vain, however—Angeli is a notorious pro-Trump presence at rallies in his home state, and he’s pleaded publicly for recognition as a true “patriot.” In case there remained any uncertainty, a close look at his hairy torso made Angeli’s leanings clear: when I zoomed in on his tattoos, I noticed white power symbols—Angeli was quite literally wearing his fascist sympathies on his heart. I knew what I was seeing because I recognized some of the same iconography hidden in the margins of black-metal albums.

For the uninitiated, black metal is a subgenre of heavy metal music distinguished by its aggression, over-the-top theatricality, and affinity for the occult, as well as its unfortunate history as a hotbed for white supremacy. The vast majority of black-metal artists avoid politics in favor of the supernatural—and a growing number have embraced anti-racism and leftist politics—but a small, virulent subset is rife with anti-Semitism, racism, far-right rhetoric, and bigotry of every stripe. As a longtime music journalist and metalhead who is also a dedicated antifascist, I’ve had to become adept at deciphering the white supremacist code words, symbols, and dog whistles that litter the black-metal scene.

[fuckyeahmarxismleninism]

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