1. I fully understand that the fun in our 'game' is often built upon hammering a political opponent....
...and frequently it involves the misuse of terminology.
So....today's lesson deals with the meaning and proper use of "Fascist"....so one may insult another properly.
And correctly.
It was amusing that a poster recently accused me in the following way:
"...Republicans....and fascists like you, ..."
Anti-Gay Stickers At High School In Indio Touch Off Debate
and this:
"...Typical RW Fascist."
Anti-Gay Stickers At High School In Indio Touch Off Debate
2. The problem is that I am a conservative....I've never made a secret of that....and conservatives and Republicans, to the extent that they tend to be conservatives, cannot be 'Fascists."
Hence, that poster had to be given a demerit on her ....rhetorical discourse.
3. But...an "A" for effort....the attempt to pejoratively label her assumed opponent (actually, I'm a real opponent!)
Here is the basis of her accusation:
"The excesses of the European versions of fascism were mitigated by the specific history and culture of America, Jeffersonian individualism, heterogeneity of the population, butthe central theme is still an all-encompassing state that centralizes power to perfect human nature by controlling every aspect of life., albeit at the loss of what had hitherfore been accepted as ‘inalienable human rights.’
The dichotomy that is today’s political reality is based on this retreat, asthe American left simply flipped from the brown-shirt utopians to the red-flag utopians, parroting Stalin’s rhetoric: anything objectionable is fascist."
Goldberg
See that last line?
Label " anything objectionable is fascist".....doesn't actually have to be a Fascist, or even similar to one!
And....to the Liberal quoted above....I am certainly 'objectionable.'
4. Simply not an accurate charge.
The misuse is, to me, like fingernails on a blackboard. There is an old saying, "When you’re hated by the right at least your death threats are spelled correctly."
And, it seems, the insults are etymologically correct, as well.
Lesson will continue.
...and frequently it involves the misuse of terminology.
So....today's lesson deals with the meaning and proper use of "Fascist"....so one may insult another properly.
And correctly.
It was amusing that a poster recently accused me in the following way:
"...Republicans....and fascists like you, ..."
Anti-Gay Stickers At High School In Indio Touch Off Debate
and this:
"...Typical RW Fascist."
Anti-Gay Stickers At High School In Indio Touch Off Debate
2. The problem is that I am a conservative....I've never made a secret of that....and conservatives and Republicans, to the extent that they tend to be conservatives, cannot be 'Fascists."
Hence, that poster had to be given a demerit on her ....rhetorical discourse.
3. But...an "A" for effort....the attempt to pejoratively label her assumed opponent (actually, I'm a real opponent!)
Here is the basis of her accusation:
"The excesses of the European versions of fascism were mitigated by the specific history and culture of America, Jeffersonian individualism, heterogeneity of the population, butthe central theme is still an all-encompassing state that centralizes power to perfect human nature by controlling every aspect of life., albeit at the loss of what had hitherfore been accepted as ‘inalienable human rights.’
The dichotomy that is today’s political reality is based on this retreat, asthe American left simply flipped from the brown-shirt utopians to the red-flag utopians, parroting Stalin’s rhetoric: anything objectionable is fascist."
Goldberg
See that last line?
Label " anything objectionable is fascist".....doesn't actually have to be a Fascist, or even similar to one!
And....to the Liberal quoted above....I am certainly 'objectionable.'
4. Simply not an accurate charge.
The misuse is, to me, like fingernails on a blackboard. There is an old saying, "When you’re hated by the right at least your death threats are spelled correctly."
And, it seems, the insults are etymologically correct, as well.
Lesson will continue.
