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The Leftist Tactic of Labeling Opponents as Nazis or Fascists
- nis0s 10mo agoThe article has interesting historical references, and is corroborated by a growing trend, https://www.npr.org/2025/10/22/nx-s1-5565134/amid-claims-that-left-wing-terrorism-is-rising-what-do-the-data-say https://www.npr.org/2025/10/22/nx-s1-5565134/amid-claims-tha...
- noobr 10mo agolol this website is full of fascists that don't like to be called fascists
- rijoja 10mo agoWould you like it if people started calling you fascist? Honestly?
- tstrimple 10mo agoAt some point we have to look at reality. One political party in the US is explicitly toying with fascism. > Fascism is a far-right, authoritarian political ideology emphasizing extreme nationalism, a strong central government led by a dictator, suppression of opposition, militarism, and the subordination of individual rights to the state's perceived needs, often with state control of the economy and a belief in national rebirth and strength. MAGA is fascist or at the very least fascist adjacent. If they don’t like the accuracy of the label, they should stop being authoritarian assholes.
- jjgreen 10mo agoThe Nazi tactic of labeling those who call them out at leftists.
- rijoja 10mo agoMasterful display of someone refuting an argument in a logical in eloquent way, whilst addressing all the points in the article, thank you. The internet is much better after that comment was posted. edit grammar
- jjgreen 10mo agoYou're welcome
- rijoja 10mo ago[flagged]
- jfengel 10mo agoI see him as a clever person. It points out that the very title of the piece exhibits exactly the same behavior that it pretends to call out. That's a time-saver: if the author is that un-self-aware, then the article itself is not worth the time to refute.
- muwtyhg 10mo ago> What I meant that it was infantile and immature Unlike your very sarcastic, passive-aggressive response? The observation they are making is real. An article about how identity politics is bad shouldn't be engaging in that exact tactic.
- yawpitch 10mo agoFrom the kind of folks who brought you “islamofascism”, “death panels”, and “Barack HUSSEIN Obama is a card-carrying Nigerian communist!”.
- rijoja 10mo agoWell the accusation was that he would have been born in Kenya, which you may want to research a bit further. The birth certificate he presented was reviewed by two independent people, and both came to the same conclusion which was ... also: ISIS did nothing wrong https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Islamic_State_beheadings https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Islamic_State_beheadings nothing to see here...
- yawpitch 10mo agoHe was a natural-born American, from birth, with less colorable questions than applied to John McCain, who was also a natural-born American from birth, even though he was born on the occupied territory of another country… the only sort of person that thinks otherwise is the one who thinks the ends justify the means. And sure, ISIS, did plenty wrong, just not one tiny bit of it in the pursuit of anything resembling fascism. Calling Salafist/Wahhabist Islamist extremism “islamofascist” is as idiotic as calling adherents to the prosperity gospel “christotrotskyites”… it’s just a propaganda tool without discernible meaning to anyone but the (idiot) choir.
- Festro 10mo agoThe Nazi doth protest too much?
- rijoja 10mo ago[flagged]
- Festro 10mo agoThe Nazi Party used the term "Socialist" in its name primarily for propaganda purposes to attract votes from the working class and to co-opt a popular political term in post-World War I Germany. In practice and ideology, Nazism was a far-right, racist, and anti-Marxist movement that brutally suppressed actual socialists and communists once in power. But lets not let facts get in the way of things shall we?
- rijoja 10mo agoThe Nazi doth protest too much?
- _urzu 10mo agoI always cringe when I hear the word "Nazism." Because the first time I heard it, it was when Putin said it in a speech after invading Ukraine. And indeed, if you check Google Trends, you'll see that the term had its peak around that time and has had an increased usage ever since. Nazism is not a word known in German either. We purposefully call it national socialism. And to be honest, I think it makes sense to be national socialism. Because it is nationally socialist. Meaning it is social towards the nation. Which is also a reason why there is the "Internationale." Because to me socialism that is constraint to a nation is inevitably nationalist, I mean how else could it not be?
- yawpitch 10mo ago“Nazism” with the capital N represents a specifically German instance of “national socialism”; to whit, the instance that reflexively called Adolf Hitler’s assassin “Mein Fuhrer”. Nazism modeled itself, in turn, on a specific instance of “fascism” which took its class name from its basal instantiation, Italian “Fascismo”, to whit the instance that reflexively called the man ultimately responsible for the death of Benito Mussolini “Il Duce”. The main lesson of history is that personality cults are a very bad idea.
- DivingForGold 10mo ago"Byman and his co-author found something remarkable. Their tally showed that in the first half of 2025, far-left terrorist activity had overtaken that from the far right. It's a departure from the pattern of the last 30 years. "
- grimblee 10mo agoFascists should be fought everywhere all the time, even for "jokes". People are quick to forget but history isn't, and the death count speaks for itself. A tolerant society cannot tolerate intolerance, lest it gets destroyed by it.