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I'm not very familiar with Richard Spencer. Can show me an example where he self-describes as fascist? I couldn't find anything relevant on the wikipedia page.
by HumanDrivenDev 9y ago
I'm not very familiar with Richard Spencer. Can show me an example where he self-describes as fascist? I couldn't find anything relevant on the wikipedia page. Ditto with breitbart being "obviously fascist". I might accept it being a right-wing tabloid, but that seems about as silly as calling huffington post "obviously communist".
I've noticed terms like "fascist", "white supremacist", "far-right" are thrown about fairly casually, while calling self-proclaimed communists "communists" is often met with derision or denial.
- fao_ 9y ago> I'm not very familiar with Richard Spencer. Can show me an example where he self-describes as fascist? I couldn't find anything relevant on the wikipedia page. Ditto with breitbart being "obviously fascist". Richard Spencer is essentially, a Nazi, his philosophy lines up pretty damn perfectly: https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Richard_Spencer#Everything.27s_Gonna_Be_Alt-Reich https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Richard_Spencer#Everything.27s... Breitbart is one of the major nodes in the new wave of cryptofascism that we have: https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Alt-right https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Alt-right, https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Breitbart.com https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Breitbart.com
- HumanDrivenDev 9y agoYour sources are an absolute joke. I'm willing to have a real conversation about this, but I'm not trawling through links with memes in them. You mentioned McCarthyism before, yet you believe in a similar conspiracy theory - "Crypto Fascism" - where instead of people being secretly communist, they're secretly fascist. I don't know how you reconcile this with yourself but I don't buy it.