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Of the stick metaphor? Please keep in mind that I am talking about the stick metaphor, and not a broader concept like collectivism. I'm not sure you understand that what I am saying is that the stick metaphor is bad.
...yes. Remember what the stick metaphor is a metaphor for!
It's a metaphor for fascism. Not sure why people think it can be removed from that context and be made a positive message. Anyway I think something happened to the comment at the top of the chain here as I can't find the context for this anymore.
The metaphor existed before fascism, dude. It was co-opted. Fascists love to co-opt leftist imagery and rhetoric, like the Nazis calling themselves socialist.
You are, in fact, perpetuating fascist myth by saying it's inextricable from fascism.