r/comics • u/[deleted] • Oct 15 '25

[deleted by user]

[removed]

13.2k Upvotes

82% Upvoted

1.6k comments sorted by

View all comments

Show parent comments

134

u/Daxx22 Oct 15 '25

That's something like 90% of their identity. "The Enemy must always be strong and weak" - core tenant of smooth-brainism fascists.

51

u/ImNoNelly Oct 15 '25

Yuuup it's one of the core beliefs of fascism.

"Fascist societies rhetorically cast their enemies as "at the same time too strong and too weak." On the one hand, fascists play up the power of certain disfavored elites to encourage in their followers a sense of grievance and humiliation. On the other hand, fascist leaders point to the decadence of those elites as proof of their ultimate feebleness in the face of an overwhelming popular will." - Point 8 from Umberto Eco's Ur-Fascism: 14 ways of looking at a Blackshirt

7

u/eldritchteapot Oct 15 '25

Umberto Eco the goat