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We’re going to fight fascism, and if you don’t agree with us we’ll burn your house down. America in a nutshell.
by cwhiz 6y ago
We’re going to fight fascism, and if you don’t agree with us we’ll burn your house down.
America in a nutshell.
- Ekaros 6y agoFighting "fascisms" with fascism... I find it entirely bizarre that so large scope of population and media is fine with what is going on...
- blog_throwaway 6y agoIts so bad that US Citizens just dont get political theory just yet. Still a lot to learn. Its laughable that you thinking burning down property is fascism rather than just arson.
- youareostriches 6y agoFascism is a political strategy involving fear of change and scapegoating. If you’re trying to imply that use of force automatically translates to fascism, then you need to consider situations of community defense against fascists, which ultimately requires force. Self-defense and defending democratic rights is quite different from terroristic violence in the service of subverting democratic and human rights. I reserve the term “violence” to situations described in Hannah Arendt‘s similarly-named essay, in which terroristic violence has historically been used by failing dictators against the legitimate power of the people as a whole.
- koheripbal 6y agoI don't think it's useful to argue semantics. If using violence to combat opposing political speech isn't your definition of fascism, then it's as equally sinister and takes us to an equally dark place. We have seen many examples in the last few years of people feeling so entitled to combat what they consider fascism, that they use violence against anyone they perceive as the enemy. Maybe we don't agree on the definition of words, but this is a bad development.
- ThrowawayR2 6y agoAuthoritarianism would probably better describe the modern left and that's plenty bad, even if for different reasons. Like many in the US, I don't support the right but I don't support the modern left either and they ought to be very worried about that.
- pas 6y agoCould you explain that a bit? What's your definition/model of authoritarianism, and how the modern left fits it?
- pas 6y agoI'm not from the US, but I'm very interested in what does this mean exactly. What's your definition/model of fascism and what's going on that means people are fighting fire with fire? Also, what do you think would be a better way to do it? Thanks!