Brown Shirts, Green Dreams

Image credit: Ophélie Paris for Noema Magazine. Essay by Leigh Phillips. Noēma – June 23, 2022.

Those of us who genuinely care about the environment and our neighbors need to discard all hints of far-right “philosophy” that’s becoming popular among a growing, and violent, community of eco-fascists.

Shortly before he (allegedly) murdered 10 Black people with a modified assault rifle at a Buffalo grocery store, 18-year-old Payton Gendron posted a mostly incoherent, anti-immigrant, racist and antisemitic screed online fulminating against “high fertility replacers” overrunning “European soil.” “I am simply a white man seeking to protect and serve my community, my people, my culture and my race,” he wrote. […]

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