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[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 month ago (1 children)

There is no definition of fascism that is exclusively that. Let’s take a list of key features defined by Umberto Eco, who was the expert on fascism and you can decide for yourself if Harris fits that:

  • The cult of tradition
  • The rejection of modernism
  • The cult of action for action’s sake
  • Disagreement is treason
  • Fear of difference
  • Appeal to social frustration
  • The enemy is both strong and weak
  • Pacifism is trafficking with the enemy
  • Contempt for the weak
  • Everybody is educated to become a hero
  • Machismo and weaponry
  • Selective populism
  • Ur-Fascism speaks Newspeak
[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 month ago

never forget that it’s hugely important to argue semantics when confronting genocide