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If there was a small minority of posters here who advocated fascism with various degrees of subtlety, how would you feel? They're certainly not the majority, b
by lacampbell 10y ago
If there was a small minority of posters here who advocated fascism with various degrees of subtlety, how would you feel?
They're certainly not the majority, but it's evident and tolerated here.
- tomhoward 10y agoI don't see anyone advocating or defending Stalinism or Maoism and going unchallenged here. My personal leaning is towards Hayek-style classical liberalism, and whilst I see plenty of commentary here that's strongly to the left or right of that, I don't see anything tolerated that advocates enslaving or murdering anyone, and I find most commentary useful in better understanding and clarifying my own positions.
- DanBC 10y ago> If there was a small minority of posters here who advocated fascism with various degrees of subtlety There are a small minority of posters who advocate fascist points of view.
- metaphorm 10y agoyou seem unable to distinguish between principled arguments from the left and your own obsession with 20th century authoritarianism.
- lacampbell 10y agoMy healthy skepticism of viewpoints echoing 20th century authoritarianism is more than justified, considering that in many countries that authoritarianism has continued into the 21st century. In 2017 there are still military threats from socialist dictatorships directed towards capitalist democracies.
- metaphorm 10y agowhich threats are those? have you seen much rhetorical defense of North Korea from hacker news posters?
- lacampbell 10y agoThe most credible threat is that of the PRC towards Taiwan. Rhetorical defense of the PRC is universally accepted in mainstream western discourse.