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> particularly given fascism is hard to define Than don't throw around "fascist" as an insult, which seems to be incredibly common.
by tekla 3y ago
> particularly given fascism is hard to define
Than don't throw around "fascist" as an insult, which seems to be incredibly common.
- graemep 3y agoI agree. It is quite worry that the word fascist is used so loosely because we forget what it really means. Even worse, the same is happening to the better defined term Nazi.
- atoav 3y agoAs an aside, to judge whether something is fascist or not going through the 14 points made by Umberto Eco helps a lot: https://www.openculture.com/2016/11/umberto-eco-makes-a-list-of-the-14-common-features-of-fascism.html https://www.openculture.com/2016/11/umberto-eco-makes-a-list... Umberto Eco grew up during italian fascism so he kinda knew.