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It's a consistent recurring theme in their propaganda, from the grotesque racial caricatures in Nazi publications like Der Sturmer to the modern day, where they represent their enemies with hideous soyjaks and portray transwomen as not just men, but unwashed, hairy neanderthals.

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[–] Outdoor_Catgirl@hexbear.net 38 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Yeah, you look at how chuds draw trans women as having beards when the men in the same drawings don't, it's crazy.

They associate morality with beautiful aesthetics. Why else do you think they post Roman statue shit or attractive women as tradwives? It's because they think not following a certain aesthetic and beauty standard makes you evil or subhuman.

[–] BeanisBrain@hexbear.net 29 points 1 week ago (1 children)

They associate morality with beautiful aesthetics.

Come to think of it, so does a lot of our popular culture (the fantasy genre has historically been especially bad about this).

Pretty privilege is definitely a thing. I've really noticed the difference in how people treat me since I started looking ill and rough. Like I'm not even worthy of basic human decency now, I don't even deserve to have my presence acknowledged.

[–] CeliacMcCarthy@hexbear.net 29 points 1 week ago

there's a lot of research indicating a stronger disgust response among the right, base revulsion is a prime psychic mover

[–] revolut1917@hexbear.net 28 points 1 week ago

bc they're stupid animals driven by disgust and fear

[–] OgdenTO@hexbear.net 25 points 1 week ago (1 children)

It's definitely about the "best" people being the fascist bloodlines - most attractive, most "civilized", smartest, etc. which equals the most deserving of land, power, wealth at the expense of the ugly, stupid enemies who are morally bankrupt and deserve to be killed and have their stuff taken

[–] vegeta1@hexbear.net 17 points 1 week ago

And all guided by a subjective beauty standard

[–] BodyBySisyphus@hexbear.net 23 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Along with phrenology, physiognomy, or the idea that you could determine certain fundamental behavioral or personality traits solely on the basis of appearance, is one of the handmaidens of eugenics, and it feeds into the fascist obsession with genetic determinism and gene pool "purity."

But also, "You have lost because I've depicted you as the hideous monster and myself as the shining god become man" is a pretty universal propaganda tactic. Dr. Seuss's depictions of the Germans and Japanese during WWII weren't exactly flattering.

[–] Collatz_problem@hexbear.net 10 points 1 week ago (1 children)

You have lost because I've depicted you as the hideous monster and myself as the shining god become man

Soyjaks and chads are going to be eternal, aren't they?

[–] Hestia@hexbear.net 10 points 1 week ago

Always have been

[–] FALGSConaut@hexbear.net 19 points 1 week ago

I wonder if you could trace it back to criminal anthropology as outlined by Lombroso in his book Criminal Man which was basically a manual for using phrenology to do pre-crime (kinda an oversimplification but he's completely wrong anyway so idgaf). Of course all the characteristics he described as "criminal indicators" were racial stereotypes, class markers, or so broad as to be applicable to anyone you wanted to shove in the mould.

[–] SorosFootSoldier@hexbear.net 18 points 1 week ago

nsfw swastika

9 times out of 10 the goober on the other end looks like this.

[–] JoeByeThen@hexbear.net 16 points 1 week ago
[–] upmysleeves@hexbear.net 12 points 1 week ago

Wielding self-hatred and insecurity comes naturally to people who don't see any good in humanity

[–] CliffordBigRedDog@hexbear.net 12 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

They do it more often than normal people but denigrating your opponents based on their physical appearance is hardly the reserve of chuds.

[–] sisatici@hexbear.net 6 points 1 week ago

Chuds care more about appearance than substance. They don't want to solve homelessness, they just don't want to see them. They are elitist but also anti intellectual. Because intellectuals oppose their ideas. Remember old big brain wojacks

They were used to praise an opinion or idea. Now they are replaced with this

The 300 kg brain that makes unseen discoveries is gone. Replaced with muscles and a manly face. They don't actually like smart people because smart people oppose their ideas but they still need an ideal person

[–] eldavi@lemmy.ml 6 points 1 week ago

mar-a-lago face is a thing and the entirety of maga won in part because of aesthetics.