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You don't deny fascism is a real thing but you strawman his arguments as disconnected and therefore false. No: you must prove his arguments disconnected. He ha

You don't deny fascism is a real thing but you strawman his arguments as disconnected and therefore false. No: you must prove his arguments disconnected. He has demonstrated their connection and given examples in each truly fascist movement. The onus is on you to take any of the 14 and show why it is false. No fallacious comparisons to dogs and planes. Prove it. Show it.

LudwigNagasena 4y ago
He doesn't demonstrate their connection. He just says, >But in spite of this fuzziness, I think it is possible to outline a list of features that are typical of what I would like to call Ur-Fascism, or Eternal Fascism. These features cannot be organized into a system; many of them contradict each other, and are also typical of other kinds of despotism or fanaticism. But it is enough that one of them be present to allow fascism to coagulate around it. I want to emphasize "many of them contradict each other, and are also typical of other kinds of despotism or fanaticism". And as he notes before that quote, "fascism had no quintessence". So how is it a real thing? It has no quintessence and whatever properties it may or may not have are also properties of other despotic and fanatical systems. So how is it in any way a real thing that could be studied and reasoned about and compared to other systems that are not fascist?