The tendency to cast any deviation from contemporary left/liberal consensus as “crypto-fascism” or even outright “fascism” is among most stifling and absurd elements of the hysteria-induced moral panic that we’ve been beset with for the past several years
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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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Vocabulary is an arms race. But I would be careful not to overstate the implications of the fact. Some people could infer from that that there is no such thing as a genuine fasicst, which of course there is.
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Never indeed.
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They were all right, though, since degraded political parties trend toward fascism/corporatism, since corporations pull more intently than the electorate does, in uneducated(government-educated) societies. That describes the USA now, and England in 1944.
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Traditional conservativism is now ‘far right’.
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Like the meaningless word “racist” today......
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I just wrote a comment to that same effect. But I think there are 2 important,contrasting sides to this issue. One we just covered. The other, is that people are overusing hyperbolic language and a clear post-war sense of moral hierarchy for cynical advantage.
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I mean it does have a true meaning, just ask someone who self identifies as a Fascist. Check out this guy's channel, lots of well researched informational style videos on it. He identifies as a real Fascist, rather than the word being used as a slander. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y9F9rnRF8Zc …
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Just wait for it to be real and watch them run like the cowards they really are
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