08-23-2017, 12:32 PM
(08-23-2017, 12:17 PM)Vlad Wrote: In the overall scheme of things the analysis or dissection of each ideology is petty and irrelevant as it relates to addressing the current state of the violent left.
It is not, however, irrelevant when address a fallacious attempt at playing "gotcha" that utilizes speech components that do not contain fascist ideology in an attempt to paint those cheering the speech components as fascist. Since that is what was being discussed, it is completely relevant.
Now, if you would like to discuss the overuse of the term fascist in our political discourse in society and how there has been a decades long history of it on both the right and the left, then I am very open to that. However, we must first establish what fascism is (authoritarian nationalism is the simplest definition and most broad), that it is not inherently left or right when looked at objectively, and that this has been an ongoing problem from the extreme mouthpieces from both parties for decades (I think the earliest one I can recall seeing this propaganda for from the left was Reagan, and I definitely remember it for Clinton, GW, and Obama afterwards).
