Dutch fascists tend to acknowledge the Banda genocide as a fun whoopsie moment. The genocide isn’t taught in Dutch school curriculums (or at least wasn’t when I attended high school), and the perpetrators are still vaguely seen as heroes of the Dutch Golden Age. So the way it plays out it can drag people in by making them feel like opposing genocide would require them to abandon national pride entirely, and they’ve already committed.
So yes, it can be fascist to acknowledge a genocide.
I don’t know how the Dutch operate, but I think I understand that. Whenever it’s mentioned by fascists, it’s not “we did this and it’s horrible”, but instead “we did this and it’s based”. Kind of like how American frontiersmen are lifted up as paragons of American Values even as they lead the US Army as they kill the natives.
Fellas, is it fascist to acknowledge genocide?
Yet when tankies deny genocides, they still assume everyone else is a fascist.
“It’s only genocide if the bad guys do it!!!”
*Bad guys is subject to change without notice, at our whims, regardless of real world facts
Dutch fascists tend to acknowledge the Banda genocide as a fun whoopsie moment. The genocide isn’t taught in Dutch school curriculums (or at least wasn’t when I attended high school), and the perpetrators are still vaguely seen as heroes of the Dutch Golden Age. So the way it plays out it can drag people in by making them feel like opposing genocide would require them to abandon national pride entirely, and they’ve already committed.
So yes, it can be fascist to acknowledge a genocide.
I don’t know how the Dutch operate, but I think I understand that. Whenever it’s mentioned by fascists, it’s not “we did this and it’s horrible”, but instead “we did this and it’s based”. Kind of like how American frontiersmen are lifted up as paragons of American Values even as they lead the US Army as they kill the natives.