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Do you know what fascist means? Or are we just going to use that word for everything that we find unappealing now? Would love for you to define it, and explain

Do you know what fascist means? Or are we just going to use that word for everything that we find unappealing now? Would love for you to define it, and explain how it applies to American nostalgia for older classic movies that are a foundation of our pop culture.

ZeroGravitas 5y ago
> The core mobilizing myth of fascism which conditions its ideology, propaganda, style of politics and actions is the vision of the nation's imminent rebirth from decadence. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Degenerate_art https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Degenerate_art
- zthrowaway 5y ago
  Trying to spin people glorifying classic movies to be a form of Nazi degenerate art would've worked better (though I disagree with this even being remotely the same thing and view it as hyperbolic.) This still has nothing to do with fascism.
watwut 5y ago
It is nostalgia for movie era that never really was. By cherry picking old movies and seeing in them what you want to see. Which is something different then trying to analyse actual past production as it actually was. It is seeing decadence in contrast to past heavenly era, because you want it to be like that.
- zthrowaway 5y ago
  Okay, you can have a problem with people glorifying the old days. But that still has nothing to do with fascism. My above question has yet to be answered.
  - watwut 5y ago
    Your question is meaningless, because the comment you answered to did not claimed nostalgia is fascist. He said, youtube algorithm is giving him vaguely fascist content.Bringing up "Birth of Nation" in literally second paragraph. And I did not said anything about glorifying past, I said the narrative lies about the past.
    - zthrowaway 5y ago
      > Your question is meaningless, because the comment you answered to did not claimed nostalgia is fascist. In OP's post: > Is the Youtube algorithm directing people to make vaguely fascist feeling, "bring back the good old days" So yeah, no. The OP here used the word fascist in reference to the idea of "bring back the good old days".
      - watwut 5y ago
        In referencie to that and butcher of other things. So, no.

ZeroGravitas 5y ago

> The core mobilizing myth of fascism which conditions its ideology, propaganda, style of politics and actions is the vision of the nation's imminent rebirth from decadence. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Degenerate_art https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Degenerate_art

zthrowaway 5y ago
Trying to spin people glorifying classic movies to be a form of Nazi degenerate art would've worked better (though I disagree with this even being remotely the same thing and view it as hyperbolic.) This still has nothing to do with fascism.

watwut 5y ago

It is nostalgia for movie era that never really was. By cherry picking old movies and seeing in them what you want to see. Which is something different then trying to analyse actual past production as it actually was. It is seeing decadence in contrast to past heavenly era, because you want it to be like that.

zthrowaway 5y ago
Okay, you can have a problem with people glorifying the old days. But that still has nothing to do with fascism. My above question has yet to be answered.
- watwut 5y ago
  Your question is meaningless, because the comment you answered to did not claimed nostalgia is fascist. He said, youtube algorithm is giving him vaguely fascist content.Bringing up "Birth of Nation" in literally second paragraph. And I did not said anything about glorifying past, I said the narrative lies about the past.
  - zthrowaway 5y ago
    > Your question is meaningless, because the comment you answered to did not claimed nostalgia is fascist. In OP's post: > Is the Youtube algorithm directing people to make vaguely fascist feeling, "bring back the good old days" So yeah, no. The OP here used the word fascist in reference to the idea of "bring back the good old days".
    - watwut 5y ago
      In referencie to that and butcher of other things. So, no.