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I imagine people won’t like to hear it, but there’s no denying that major sports teams rely on the same “in-group/out-group” dynamic that fascism relies on.
It may be a more benign form (for the most part), but the whole “my sports team is better than yours!” Is definitely tribalistic in nature. It’s not surprising to me that many die-hard fans may revel in arbitrary social divisions in other facets of their lives.
I don't know if they do it in the US, but it's well known that Nazis in Europe are recruiting from the soccer fan clubs.
People turning their entire lives into revolving around artificial factions about a game they have no say in, and willing to get into physical fight over it, yeah, those are exactly who they want.
Fascism is about the in-group that gets to make rules that bind the out-group but not themselves. The important bit there is the enforcement of those rules with the state's monopoly on violence.
Merely having an in-group and an out-group is harmless on its own. It's how you have inside jokes. It's how you have friends who you can trust with secrets. It's how families work.
Having in-jokes with your friends is not tribalistic. I mean, it may be something a small tribe does—that's not what we're talking about.
Performative hatred of "the other ones", sports teams, clankers, what have you, scratches the same itch fascists love scratching. Obviously, that's something they can leverage.
As if the left is immune to tribalism...
I am immune to tribalism. I use my long dick to ward off tribalist spirits. What now, big boy.