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minus-squarebartera@beehaw.orglinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·1 year agoMy point is that I don’t know what’s specifically “fascist” about it if virtually everyone uses it.
minus-squareStringTheory@beehaw.orglinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·edit-21 year ago“Fascist” is an adjective. Like “green.” A bad example: l don’t know what’s specifically green about it if virtually all plants look that way. Everyone is using a fascist tactic. It doesn’t become a benevolent tactic because everyone uses it. It’s still fascist. Edit: here is one of the better known essays on fascism, which might be of more use than my clumsy attempt https://www.openculture.com/2016/11/umberto-eco-makes-a-list-of-the-14-common-features-of-fascism.html. Humans have been rollicking around brutalizing each other since before we climbed down out of the trees, and using fascist tactics long before we had a word for it.
My point is that I don’t know what’s specifically “fascist” about it if virtually everyone uses it.
“Fascist” is an adjective. Like “green.”
A bad example: l don’t know what’s specifically green about it if virtually all plants look that way.
Everyone is using a fascist tactic. It doesn’t become a benevolent tactic because everyone uses it. It’s still fascist.
Edit: here is one of the better known essays on fascism, which might be of more use than my clumsy attempt https://www.openculture.com/2016/11/umberto-eco-makes-a-list-of-the-14-common-features-of-fascism.html. Humans have been rollicking around brutalizing each other since before we climbed down out of the trees, and using fascist tactics long before we had a word for it.