Tweet by Laurie Penny ✔ @PennyRed:
Stop waiting for the ‘real Nazis’ to show up. They’re here. White supremacy today doesn’t look like the organised party system of the 20th century, because it doesn’t need to. This is gig-economy fascism. Entrepreneurial white supremacy. Serving the interests of tyrants by proxy.
They’re not saying “the gig economy is fascist” here, it’s a metaphor. You could argue that it’s a slightly clumsy metaphor, I guess, but suggesting that white supremacy is organized differently today than it was in the 20th century isn’t that far-fetched. The reference to gig economies is just illustrating sometime else (labor markets) that has very obviously reorganized in that same time frame.