Senior Lecturer in Media, Film and Communication at the University of Otago. Co-Director for Kōtaha: the Internet, Social Media and Politics Research Lab at Te Herega Waka - Victoria University of Wellington | 🇨🇦 in 🇳🇿 (he/him) | @[email protected]
Michael S. Daubs, PhD
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This isn't just a casual observation. Fascism scholars have long made this point. It's why calling them "weird" was a more effective strategy than talking about the prices of eggs. Fascism is an aesthetic political movement - you need to make people feel embarassed and horrified by it.
CFP for a special issue of Interface: a journal for and about social movements on "Transnational repression and
social movements" available at www.interfacejournal.net/wp-content/u.... Deadline for initial submissions to this issue, to be published in
October/November 2026, is 30 March 2026.
A ban isn't radical. A real radical approach would be to no longer accept the governance and economic model that social media platforms rely, which we can and should regulate instead.
In case people in the back didn’t hear her, @smittermeier.bsky.social has an important point here.
Despite a recent Stuff story that suggested we had opposing views on the topic, Cassandra and I are in complete agreement. Go read her excellent article in the Post!
