Orwell observed in 1944 that every political faction in England had accused the other of being "fascist" -- from communists to conservatives. "It will be seen that, as used, the word ‘Fascism’ is almost entirely meaningless," he wrote. Some things never change...
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Fascism clearly exists to some extent but the over-reliance on hyperbolic, hysterical language has fostered laziness and stultification. A useful exercise is to try to describe phenomena you regard as potentially "fascist" without using the term; it obscures more than it reveals
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But it does increase viewership and clicks...
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Yep. Many are being played by it, including myself often!
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contemporary left/liberal thinking is alien to traditional left/liberal thinking.
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Saying that sort of thing is just a dog whistle for fascism! ;)
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“Several” years? Oh to be that young.
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It's what actual "Fascists" do...
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Wow so I guess people tend toward hyperbole now? what a disturbing new trend
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Auden quote: There is more truth than one would like to believe in Huey Long’s cynical observation that if fascism came to America it would be called Anti-fascism.
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I cry. People with functioning smartphones in their pockets can't look up these terms. I don't know if I'd use those words, but people have been in a nervous funk, that's for sure. They can handle anything but conflict. They like to be sure about things and it seems they can't.
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THANK YOU.
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Agree I'm "old". It has gotten extremely divisive on both sides. But the left is eating itself.
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Don't forget proto-fascism.
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Same goes for calling any deviation from the right wing consensus "socialism".
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These are symptoms of a state run education system that sponsor neomarxist propaganda A media both social and mainstream that focus only on ratings not objective truths Also, the dotage of monopolized big tech companies wielding their political ideology on its users
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Water is wet. You don’t have to pay attention to every troll out there
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