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Not sure how this is fascist. Explain?
by prohobo 3y ago
Not sure how this is fascist. Explain?
- slaw 3y ago[flagged]
- nunobrito 3y agoYep. Perhaps people are simply tired of bullshit or propaganda. On this specific case it is even illegal to question the accuracy of their claims. Yet, these claims are repeated ad nauseam as unquestionable truths just like in the medieval times. Modern inquisition polices the social networks. Anyone who dissents the established facts is silenced by those who rule society. Are the citizens today really that different from humans in the dark ages? One thing is for sure, at least they only paid 10% taxes on their income.
- adfhoijionio 3y ago[flagged]
- squarefoot 3y agoForcing a lecture about holocaust to stop is not opinion, it is fascism pure and simple. Please don't use freedom of speech to justify negationism; it doesn't work like that.
- RicDan 3y agoNot sure what storming, disturbing and leading to the cancellation of an event that describes historical occurrences else is. A normal hobby? Surely not.
- Veen 3y agoLeft-wingers also storm, disturb, and try to cancel events, so it's not an exclusively "fascist" pastime.
- RicDan 3y agoDon't disagree, the wing doesn't matter, both can still apply fascist strategies
- rayiner 3y ago[flagged]
- agentgumshoe 3y agoA protest?
- n4r9 3y agoNot me, but OP seemed to be claiming that this brand of far-right extremism is better described as fascism. As opposed to claiming that storming a lecture is fascism. I sympathise somewhat with the claim. Fascism has evolved since political parties literally used it in their names and marched around in customised military uniforms. There are certain narratives continue to demarcate modern fascism from other extremist politics. A striking one is the focus on a pure nation or race, and the idea that some impure foreign invader is conspiratorially undermining that nation, and dragging it down from its purity and former glory. For Braun this is the gays and the Jews (as it was for Hitler); for Trump it's the Mexicans; for Farage it's the Romanians; for Orban the "non-Europeans"; for Bolsonaro the indigenous Native Americans, etc... This is pretty distinct from, say, authoritarian communist narratives, which are often about liberating the workers of the world from their capitalist masters.