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How To Know If You're A Fascist - Lessons From Yale & Mizzou
Submitted by Bill Barlow via The Harvard Law Record,
Usually, we at Harvard are more than happy to see Yale students make fools of themselves on camera. The video that emerged this week of Yale students screaming down one of their professors might make for a good laugh, if its implications were not quite so serious. It’s a scene we’ve seen played out far too often at college campuses in recent years, and it deserves to be called by what it is: a nascent form of fascism.
In case you haven’t heard, Yale has recently endured a firestorm of protest after a lecturer that presides over one of the undergraduate colleges questioned whether concerns about the offensiveness of Halloween costumes had gone too far in impinging on free speech.
In response, hundreds of protesters gathered on the quad, calling for Nicholas and Erika Christakis to be removed from their roles. Nicholas voluntarily came to discuss the matter with them, and soon, a crowd of students enveloped him.
The video is chilling.
One student is heard saying, “Walk away. He doesn’t deserve to be listened to.” When Nicholas started to explain himself, a student yells, “Be quiet!” and then proceeds to lecture him. When Nicholas calmly and politely says “I disagree,” the protestor explodes, screaming, “Why the fuck did you accept the position?! Who the fuck hired you?! You should step down!” Then, finally, “You’re disgusting!”
The problem here isn’t that people disagree with what Nicholas said. The problem is that they are calling for reprisals against Nicholas and Erika simply for saying it. This recent movement of university students to use administrative procedures to punish speech with which they disagree should be called by its rightful name: proto-fascism.
Several days later, students disrupted an event held by the William F. Buckley, Jr. program that was designed to highlight the importance of free speech. According to reports by the Yale Daily News, several attendees were spat on as they left.
Once again, the problem isn’t that you disagree with what the event said (though, if you disagree with an event about the importance of free speech, that might be a cause for concern itself), but that you are using a tactic—spitting—that constitutes battery, and should never be used against someone for expressing beliefs that you disagree with.
I understand that it can sometimes be difficult for college students today to tell the difference between fascist methods and non-fascist methods of advancing their beliefs and agendas. Luckily, I spent my senior thesis studying the rise of fascism in Europe, and am happy to give a few, easy tips about whether the activity you are engaged in adopts fascist tactics or not. To make it even easier, I’ve put it in table form:
Of course, this isn’t an exhaustive list, but it’s a good starting point. Ask yourself the question: Am I calling for people to be officially sanctioned because of what they believe, or am I committing a crime against someone because of what they believe? If the answer is yes, you are probably engaging in fascist tactics.
Given the public outcry, it seems that the majority of people, including the majority of progressive liberals, believe that Yale students calling for the resignation of those professors have gone too far in punishing free speech. The problem is that no one is willing to stand up to them. If we are going to begin anywhere, we are going to begin by calling them by their rightful name.
They are fascists.
They are fascists.
They are fascists.
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You Might Be a Fascist if...
you look in the mirror and see a striking resemblance to Barak Obama.
Decency and civility are long lost practices.
What is disgusting is those students' behavior, particularly yelling profanely against a man who is addressing another politely.
These college students are becoming like Morgoth & Sauron's orcs...
Forcing people to believe that Satoshi is indeed teh cyberchrist and you should be forced to buh the voluntary currency Bitcoin.
"Facsist" and "racist" are like magic words to libtards. They say them and scary people and ideas are supposed to disappear.
If you are being called a facsist by some people it just means you are doing something right.
I once read the first few hundred pages of a 700 pg book whose sole objective was to define what exactly "fascism" is.
Defining the term ain't as easy as it sounds. Smart asses will default to a well-known quote by Mussolini, but fascism really isn't that one dimensional.
Mr. Barlow of the Harvard Law Review, his senior thesis notwithstanding, should be taken with a grain of salt in this blog post. He would have been more accurate at the end of his missive had he just underscored that the Yale students' tactics simply shared common features of those of historical fascist movements but in and of themselves did not represent fascism, proto or otherwise. Many other non-fascist movements have utilized similar tactics. Perhaps I'm splitting hairs.
But Ob1knob... believe me when I say this.. you do not wish to be called a "fascist" if someone is actually throwing around that term accurately.
Ob1knob lacks the mental horsepower to rise to the level of fascism.
That intellectually deficit, overly emotional female student screaming at the professor looks like she got into Yale on an affirmative action program. But then what is affirmative action? As the name implies, it's an intellectually deficit, overly emotional response to racism.
This flood of horror videos from US universities... Makes me affraid for you people.
Naw, they are Communists. This is how Communists are. Fascists let you have your freedom of speech if you're a part of the club.
These people aren't a part of the club. Nations without industry don't have fascism, they have dictatorships.
Red Guards redux.
These "i deserve it" kids have a yuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuge chip on their shoulders who are rsentful of anyone who doe snot give their lazy butts anything but kudos. Most of this is engendered by their parents who teach tem they all winners no matter how stupid or arrogant they are.
Just one more reason these kids cannot get jobs when they get out.
The progs need to design merit badges for todays Hitler Youth, something they can wear proudly on their breast to show the world their proginess, so they can feel..."special".
How bout the "I Ate An Entire Meal Without Texting" merit badge? ;-)
Let me get this straight....nobody thought to take a picture of the racist act?
Every phone these days has a camera.....nobody thought to take a picture?
They were too busy taking selfies...lol.
http://news.yahoo.com/pennsylvania-college-cancels-play-author-objects-w...
ANARCHY IN ACTION!
Revolting without a clue.
It will be high comedy watching these helpless fools drop like flies when the real scat hits the fan.
In it's most basic form, doesn't the definition of "fascism" include business/corporations acting in the interest and at the behest of the state? I'm just not sure how this relates to a bunch of spoiled little twatwaffles screaming about their victomhood. You would think that someone publishing under the banner of "The Harvard Law Record" would get that.
"Fasces" were a symbol of the Roman republic - a group of thin wooden rods lashed together with an axe blade sticking out. They were a symbol of Roman power, based on the concept that each wooden rod, though small and thin, when held tightly with its brothers, could wield strong power. The US "E pluribus unum" is another variation on this theme.
"Fascism" per se has nothing to do with whether corporations co-operate with gov't (or vice-versa). That they often do in fascist regimes is not a co-incidence, but it is not the root system.
You cannot make a 'fasces' with a group of twisted and bent sticks that don't align with each other. Every stick must be round and straight. So it is in a fascist society; you cannot build its 'strength' unless everyone is singing from the same song book, which means EVERYONE MUST BELIEVE THE SAME IDEALS. Apostasy, heresy, discord - these cannot be tolerated, for within them are the seeds of honesty and truth that fascism abhors, and that would, unchecked, lead to its inevitable destruction. Therefore, fascism must always have a large group ready to challenge vociferously, angrily, and if need be, violently any criticism of, or offering of alternatives to, the fascist orthodoxy.
This is why the sheep must be trained to unthinkingly bleat "4 legs good, 2 legs bad" at anything that upsets their fascist leaders' dreams of complete control and subjugation of the will. Indeed, our universities are becoming modern sheep farms - there's lot of wool gathering, and they turn out lambs bred for slaughter.
I confess, I have pulled down a poster or two in a university hallway while studying in the lab late at night once or twice... but they were all bad I swear.
I have a truck bed full of "Sign up for Obamacare now!" signs collected from around town. They put em up, I take em down. I guess this is OK because technically, I paid for those signs and therefore own them.
Can't get jobs when they get out? Who do you think is running this country? Who do you think is running its universities?
If I was hiring today, and I had a stack of resumes in front of me, I would drop the current college grads to the bottom of the stack. If I had to rank that bottom stack, I would put all those with worthless college degrees (you know the ones I am talking about) in the "circular file" sitting below my desk.
Give me a person who has been in the workforce (and proven to be reliable) anyday over some spoiled asshole with degree in Cultural Studies or some other worthless bullshit degree.
America Not The Greatest Country In The World
Universities have always been filled with militant fags, lezbos, and Marxists. There's really nothing new going on. Just think about Bill Ayers and Bernadine Dorne. At least these punks aren't blowing up buildings.
ya except now you are on the hook for a trillion dollar to pay these professors a million a year. Ever notice those popping into and out of government for the democrat come loaded with a million or two from their university....whether it is larry Summer, Bernanke, Hillary's Cheif of State Cheryl Mills getting paid by NYU while being at the State Department. Many univeristies and investment banks now serve as cash cows for the democrats.
I am not surprised to see these minorities behave like a low-life animals. After all, regardless of how you teach and/or train them, they are still were, are, and will be animals.
Today white people behave like Native American. The results are well known. You don't take shit from gangsters and murderers. You must fight, otherwise, you are doomed.
I don't like Putin. He is a thief and a gangster but when he was cornered by hoodlums like Obama and his NATO "friends," Putin has shown how to deal with these people. He has challenged these shit and got results.
All humans are animals, in case you didn't know.
I am sure the Univ of Mizzou stadium will be filled with thousands of whites cheering on these Trayvon thugs and rapists. Mizzou's ball players have among the highest assuals including sexual assaults of any ball team. florida State leads the list. All of these things get covered up.
The white male cheerleader fan bois are the most sickening.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Struggle_session
Like definitions matter when someone has a gun in your face. We understand force, we understand oppression, and we understand that those complaining of both are likely today to be the ones most often practicing it. Shall we define pornography or simply accept that we know it when we see it?
you only need to define it if you're a lawyer--- as in "depends what is is" -- or if you're a politico -- as in "I am not a crook"
"[Barlow] would have been more accurate at the end of his missive had he just underscored that the Yale students' tactics simply shared common features of those of historical fascist movements but in and of themselves did not represent fascism, proto or otherwise."
If it walks like a duck and quacks like a duck ....
"Perhaps I'm splitting hairs."
The problem with the proposed articulation is that it includes far too many words. Today's Americans demand slogans, not well crafted sentences. Small-government advocates have the same problem. It takes meaningful articulation to point out the benefits of liberty and the pitfalls of progressivism in any of its forms. Far too many Americans can't handle reasoning or even sentences longer than five words.
Ex:
Much more like Maoist "self-criticism" and therefore even way more uglier than you portray. Hillary would be proud, both as a Maoist and as an Eli.
- Ned
the definition of fascism is private control of the state - in our age, by concentrations of corporate power.
this article confuses it with rudeness and incivility.
the state can then be defined as the media, educational institutions, all levels of government and the various other corporations that control the state, and us.
Historians, political scientists and other scholars have long debated the exact nature of fascism.[22] Each form of fascism is distinct, leaving many definitions too wide or narrow.[23][24]
One common definition of fascism focuses on three concepts: the fascist negations of anti-liberalism, anti-communism and anti-conservatism; nationalist authoritarian goals of creating a regulated economic structure to transform social relations within a modern, self-determined culture; and a political aesthetic of romantic symbolism, mass mobilization, a positive view of violence, and promotion of masculinity, youth and charismatic leadership.[25][26][27] According to many scholars, fascism — especially once in power — has historically attacked communism, conservatism and parliamentary liberalism, attracting support primarily from the far right.[28]
Roger Griffin describes fascism as "a genus of political ideology whose mythic core in its various permutations is a palingenetic form of populist ultranationalism".[29] Griffin describes the ideology as having three core components: "(i) the rebirth myth, (ii) populist ultra-nationalism and (iii) the myth of decadence".[30] Fascism is "a genuinely revolutionary, trans-class form of anti-liberal, and in the last analysis, anti-conservative nationalism" built on a complex range of theoretical and cultural influences. He distinguishes an inter-war period in which it manifested itself in elite-led but populist "armed party" politics opposing socialism and liberalism and promising radical politics to rescue the nation from decadence.[31]
Robert Paxton says that fascism is "a form of political behavior marked by obsessive preoccupation with community decline, humiliation, or victimhood and by compensatory cults of unity, energy, and purity, in which a mass-based party of committed nationalist militants, working in uneasy but effective collaboration with traditional elites, abandons democratic liberties and pursues with redemptive violence and without ethical or legal restraints goals of internal cleansing and external expansion."[32]
Umberto Eco,[33] Kevin Passmore,[34] John Weiss,[35] Ian Adams,[36] and Moyra Grant,[37] mention racism (including anti-semitism) as a characteristic of fascism; i.e. fascistic dictator Hitler idealized German society as a racially unified and hierarchically organized Volksgemeinschaft.
Under my administration, Yale will be refitted as a forced labor camp, with mandatory Right of Return for all graduates. The shower facilities, soap-rendering plant, and crematorium are reserved for the Columbia Teacher's College, and Schools of Journalism and Sociology, respectively.
My name is Kobe Beef. I am a fascist.
It's a consequence of parents raising children w/o disciple - no spanking, etc. This is you get, youthful obnoxious idiots who think they can say and do anything.
I smacked mine when needed and left marks more than once. Got in a lot of trouble by the state over it. Fuck the state. I have 3 non-Marxist young adults who respect authority.
Wow. Lots of down votes for properly disciplining your children.
To teach them to "respect authority?" Really? If you understand how authority really works, you should be teaching kids to think for themselves and to question authority.
You're splitting hairs just to have a pissing contest! JLee is on target here -- he just perhaps should have added an adjective and said "...respect legitimate authority". But you're just as far off base by stating ALL authority should be questioned. Just as JLee failed to provide context, so have you.
If you want to hurl stones, then it is incumbent on you to be responsible enough to spell out that one's responsibility is actually to teach one's children to question legitimate authority and to be able to ask the right questions to determine which authorities are actually legitimate and which have usurped power in unwarranted fashion.
If JLee was leaving marks on his children, he's no better than that screaming bitch. If you lack the capacity to utilize a judicious amount of guilt coupled with taking the time to explain how to behave to your children, you need to get neutered.
Send your guilt tripping kids to Yale. They will fit right in. The don't even give grades at Yale, that would be micro-aggressing.
And leave the rest of us parents the fuck alone that raise children we have no problems with.
Any authority that can't stand up to honest questioning isn't legitimate. But if you don't ask questions, how will you ever know which is which? That's not "splitting hairs" - it's fairly simple logic.
"Wow. Lots of down votes for properly disciplining your children."
Nanny 911 proved a parent did not have to hit their children, to discipline them.
Hey JLee, I don't like looking at your doped up face....Butch
By the way, I have two young non-Marxists who DIDN'T get marks left all over 'em....ya shithead
Yeah, my dad beat me too. That's why I left home at 15.
JLee,
When you have to smack your kids to make them understand something / do as you say, it is you the parent who has failed.
if violence is what you teach them, then that is how they will teach you & others
when they have a difference of opinion that can not be resolved with words.
I have 3 boys & 2 grand children, never once have any of them been smacked because violence only begets more violence...feel free to disagree
I raised strong loving and definitely non marxist or even statist children without hitting them .Hitting a child is the reaction of a parent who has lost patience ,reason and love , trust me it is completely unnecessary and does nothing to garner respect. I am loved and trusted and blessed now in return . The fact that you two seem to be proud to share in public that you have resorted to bullying and violence against your own children , well what can I say , that is sad and not a good sign for the future of our species.
never once had to beat my kid up to get them to do what I want. Do you beat your wife up as well...if she back talks? I am convservative...fiscal, justice as it comes....
"I smacked mine when needed..."
"I have 3 non-Marxist young adults who respect authority."
Correlation is not causation. Besides, they don't respect you, they fear you. And, because of their fear, they lie to you about it now, too. But what does a guy like you care about truth anyways? Just as long as you are seen as being 'right'.
Ignorant people use violence when they can't find the words to express themselves properly. Not your fault if you were raised to be ignorant. What is your fault is that you never did anything about it... except to repeat the cycle of violence in your family and leave it to your kids to break it because you were too lazy or stupid to do it yourself. If they don't (or won't,) I wonder how you will feel watching your children beating your grand-children.
Your kids are growing stronger and you are growing older. They may have the opportunity to pull the plug on you, someday. Sweet dreams sheissekopf.
Damn, I just wasted time writing a reply to this sad person – and you did it much better! And now I can’t delete mine…
Ignorant people use violence when they can't find the words to express themselves properly.
And sometimes good people use violence when the counterparty is incapable of or unwilling to listen to words.
Intelligent people can tell the difference between the two.
"...sometimes good people use violence when the counterparty is incapable of or unwilling to listen to words."
Against a government, yes.
Against children... explain it again to them when they're older. What's the hurry?
Education with force and punishment – you can be a teacher of the ‘new’ US fascist century! Obey your Masters/authority or get smacked in the face!
Children raised with violence will themselves be violent (inwards or outwards). In all Scandinavian countries violence against children is seen as just that violence = a felony. It, of course, doesn’t have to be a felony – it’s (I think) an obvious immoral thing to do (to hit/be violent towards kids) and people using violence against kids are either psychopathic or stupid.
The amount of up-votes you get, however, doesn’t surprise me – the nature of the ZH-forum-crowd taken into account (=all the controlled opposition-people directly or indirectly blaming the victims of the current fascist system for their own oppression – the ‘useless eaters’, ‘the working poor’, ‘the disfranchised’ etc. A typical fascist propaganda strategy).
What is a ‘non-Marxist’ child? A child who doesn’t know what Marxism is (it’s a theory – not an ideology)? Many capitalists uses Marxism as a framework for analysis (the creation of surplus value, the historical materialism etc.) – like they can uses Hegelianism, Positivism, Hermeneutics or any other scientific method. Did you mean ‘non-Communist’?
I agree with the replies to your post regarding authority. Authority doesn’t deserve respect a priori – respect has to be earned. I guess your kids are thought to respect violent authority = they are ready to live in the US police state.
yep, now
Well said.
Incorrect. Authority does justify respect, a priori - that's essentially the entire point of a civlization, society, government, institutions, etc. If the authority figure fails to preserve that respect, than it is lost.
Any parent, any professor, any teacher, any boss, any supervisor, any mayor, any authority figure, should be provided the presumption of respect initially. Period. Full stop.
If they don't continue to earn it, it is lost. But to suggest everyone should start from an initial position of no respect (which conditions lack of respect) is WRONG. And frankly, it is the problem. Begin from a position of respect, and investigate/monitor/watch etc. closley to sure that it is earned.
Teaching to start without respect conditions disrespect, which is how societies fall.
My point was that there was no respect, only fear.
"If they don't continue to earn it, it is lost."
There is a difference between respect which is granted and that which is earned.
Violence does not beget respect, in my view.
Trust must also be earned, but can be granted conditionally, as can respect and authority.
I am not one who downvoted you; I had to spank my kids a couple of times, but I'm serious - if it was more than five times each, I'd be amazed. But it's not teaching the kids to 'respect authority' - it's teaching them to RESPECT OTHER PEOPLE. It's teaching them that there is always someone stronger than you, so violence is a short-sighted way to 'solve' problems. The kids in the video have no respect for other people (unless they are in total agreement with the kids, which is not my definition of 'respect' - people are generally deserving of respect even if they hold different ideals than you. I don't walk around slapping Democrats, for example.). Having never been subject to reciprocated violence, they dream their violence is powerful, necessary, and right. It's only when they meet the Trayvons of this world that they realize their 'violence' is weak, useless, and irrelevant. But by then, it's usually too late.
I think we have someone like that at my company. She is actually managing others..but does have a few years experience.
I learned today from a colleague that she set new product if goals for her team of analysts.
She wants it increased by 25%.
That number is based on nothing at all.
As a matter of fact she stated that her team is doing a great job.
I guess it's the old "you're doing a great job, now work harder".
Fucking ditz with tits.
I worked for a well known fortune 100 company for 10 years that established those type goals from the executive suite and expected the same percentage improvement every year. If you want to see resourcefulness in it's most wasted sense, watch the kind of bullshit conceived to hit targets like that.
PMS on parade.
It started with Barney
I hate that F'n ugly purple Mofo
"Decency and civility are long lost practices."
The cycle is complete. Young Fascists are a growing part of the student body. The implications will be the destruction of free thinking and the exchange of viewpoints and ideas which is the most important part of university learning.
The findings of The Trilateral Commission in the 70's, that America's youth were becoming too well educated and exposed to ideas that are the seeds of the destruction of the preferred form of empire called for a dumbing down of the education system which began in the 70's and is now completed. This is the by-product, intolerance of anyone's ideas other than the one's your "group" espouses.
How that shrieking harpy can manage to exist is beyond me. It was hard to tell trying to piece coherent words from the shrill, emotive wailing.....but it sounded like she thought this professor's NUMBER ONE JOB was to 'provide a home-like environment'?
What fucking planet is this?
THANKS FEMENAZIS. Awesome job taking down western civilization! Enjoy the coming utopia!
Becoming? Born like seems more the case to me.
I always suspected Hitler was also a queer.
He coined the term Fascism.
its a codeword for 'demonizable'. i could wish we could make a point without using such words, but most people only react to their programming. so you have to use the codewords.
I thought Mussolini provided the most cogent definition of facism, which is a political term. That student was just a stupid, vicious, emotionally disturbed bully. Facism is when corporations control the government. Kind of like modern day Scamerica..
Got a 404 when I clicked on that link.
Campus life is mob rule now, they're not interested in intellectual arguments. We passed that point years ago.
Activist files petition to strike Bernie Sanders from NH Democratic primary ballothttp://tinyurl.com/pkrlnjz
Cannot understand why that guy stood there and took that baby temper tantrum nonsense. Interrupt, yell right back and louder. That has worked for me at least twice. They get all quiet and scared looking real fast.
Were you dealing with negros? That girl dropped her bag like she was ready to start throwing punches.
Did that bitch scare you? Sounds like it. The only cure is to be a man, not a coward.
He was probably suprised!
When it happened to me, natural instinct took over. I guess he is a neutered male.
Yale staff? He helped create the monster. He was probably trying to wrap his head around his own "white guilt and privilege" [spit].
Frank Zappa had a wonderful quote about situations like this, "may your shit come to life, and kiss you".
Embrace the fecal matter leftists, you own it.
Wow, you are sounding more and more like that dumb bitch in the video, JLee..
Yael ... one of the most far left wing white guilt colleges in the country that awards 90% scholarships to one group only.
Anybody who is crying about "safe spaces" will likely shit their pants when you start looking pissed off and yell "SHUT THE FUCK UP!"
I think that if this shit spreads to a university campus near me, I'll have to show up and troll the cocksuckers in person. This shit is doubleplusungood.
Ya know, when I first saw this I got pretty enraged and then a thought popped into my head and I calmed right down.
This puss doesn't have a clue what is coming her way in a few short years or LESS (imo). Whatever her degree, she will be lucky to be sucking cock for rent money or food by the time this shit show fully unwinds. If she is violently offended by the off chance that a halloween costume that is offensive may wander by, just think of the outrage when her pampered Yale lifestyle goes out the window because the economy either collapsed or went into hyperinflation.
There ain't gonna be no affirmative action to pull her ass out of the fire next go around.
SORRY BOUT THAT GUYS, IT WAS WORKING............WTF..............
If you want a real example of fascism, just look at the background to the murder of the Louisiana 6 year old by city marshals. Lt. Stafford, now charged with murder, was twice charged with aggravated rape, once when he was a city policeman. Both charges somehow vanished. Protecting Stafford was a corrupt law enforcement regime that resembled a fascist Nazi army of occupation more than a police force.
http://www.katc.com/story/30460349/katc-investigates-several-lawsuits-pending-against-officers-accused-in-shooting-death-of-6-year-old
KATC Investigates has uncovered the two Marksville City Marshals now under arrest for a boy's murder have been accused of civil rights violations in the past.
Jeremy Mardis, 6, was shot and killed Tuesday night while in a truck with his father, Chris Few, who was critically injured. In initial statements, the marshals involved allegedly indicated they were chasing Few because he had an outstanding warrant. But no warrant has been found, and officers have refused to give statements to troopers investigating the incident.
Derrick Stafford and Norris Greenhouse Jr. were arrested Friday on counts of second degree murder and attempted murder.
In October, 2011, when Lt. Derrick Stafford was already a Marksville police officer, he was indicted by a Rapides Parish grand jury on two counts of aggravated rape on two separate victims -- one in 2011 and another in 2004 when Stafford was 21. The victim in 2004 was 15. After Stafford was arrested on the rape charges, he stayed in jail for a month until the $300,000 bail was lowered to $40,0000. He was barred from communicating with the victims or owning or possessing a firearm or ammunition as part of the bail agreement.
In May of 2012, the state dismissed the rape charges, but still ordered Stafford to stay away from the victims. We've requested more information on why the charges were dismissed, but have not yet received that information.
maybe you don't know what fascist is. What he did is just plain criminal
The agenda is moving into warp factor......
http://beforeitsnews.com/conspiracy-theories/2015/11/666-is-upon-us-the-...
I would disagree. Given their tactics, but more importantly their goals, I label them Stalinist. Of course if you want to say that there's really no difference between fascists and Stalinists I wouldn't argue against that.
then making the distinction only serves to confuse the matter
I think the problem is that we are trying to make current behaviors fit into the labels that defined past behaviors.
The current red plague has a glossy red candy coating.
Everything they spew is nestled in fluffy terms like 'safe zones' and 'places of healing'. They do this because it works. Look at all done in the name of safety and security...and note that none of it ever yields anything of the kind. Drug wars, Terror Wars and loss of Liberty ALL have the same common root false motives....safety, security.....you know....for the kids.
If you must use an old label...there's a really old label that is much more accurate....and simple.
Call it bullshit.
The new Brown Shirts cometh.
FORWARD SA!
The Anthem of the new generation.
https://youtu.be/3UWTRnzKXG8
The article's thumbnail is emblematic. Between figures such as Marine Le Pen, Marion Marechal, Erna Solberg, Siv Jensen, Pia Kjærsgaard, Nicola Sturgeon, and more recently Frauke Petry and Johanna Mikl-Leitner, Western politics are experiencing a sharp rise in upper-middle class white women who openly advocate for nationalist, racist or closed border policies.
It's about time.
Thai women don't need to advocate for closed border polices cuz Thailand is a racist society of pretty much 95% pure Thais. Why are you so focused on the destruction of the white race?
Kow gai mai?
cause he ain't white
i think you missed the point of the article.
I also think that people who demand open borders in countries where the majority doesnt want it are fucking fascists.
Why dont you?
As opposed to marxist, internationalist, zionist open borders cesspool that more resembles an unhealthy mix of Afghanistan, Pakistan, Ethiopia, Libya and Syria than the European country it used to be? Yeah, I'll take closed borders and nationalism any day of the century.
Conflating racism with closed borders, nice!
You lock your doors at night, racist?
With all the darkies in my neighbourhood, fucking oath I do.
It's more like this, Chuck-
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bWXazVhlyxQ
edit; It's not that I mind junks, it's just that the junkers almost never reply. Oh well.
That is because they lack the ability to formulate a valid counterpoint argument and you nailed them.
They have the problem with their own cognitive dissonance which you have successfully challenged.
At times you can consider the downarrow as a success. You got someone to think.
Hey Chuck, I think you'll find this one might be more accurate...
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=VvhkbJ_OMCQ
I am calling for a ban on banning. Not much more facist than that eh?
the article would say that is not facist.
There's a long list of proto-fascist families in America and their banking friends, go Back to Bush Daddy and Dulles for example. This is NOT something new. The only thing that's really changed recently is that Cheney and Rumsfeld have ushered in unfettered dominance within the apparachik of USSA, the proto-fascist methodology. Go NSA, Go CIA, Go JSOC, Go MIC. Go Blackwater. Go Cheney, goose step to glory mutherfuckers!
Sorry Charlie but that was going on long before
Cheney.
Fascism is a fairly efficient system which is why it is typical in the military. Militaries are seldom democratic egalitarian organizations that last very long. When at war we can appreciate a certain level of fascism as it is the quickest path to a desired end. Silence your opposition and move forward. So it should be no surprise to anyone that those who see themselves at war will resort to its use. Governments at war will tend fascistic and ultimately it is up to the people to pull that power back once the threat is over. Fascism is people's way of expressing their desperation, and progressives have reached a fevered pitch. They see their ends so closely at hand, victory within their reach, and will push hard for the goal line.
Conservatives may well find themselves exercising their fascist legs if this shit keeps coming. At some point we all find that gentle conversation and reasoning will fail our cause simply because others refuse to listen. We know progressives abandoned debate years ago, instead adopting personal attack and destruction as their most useful tool. If fascism suites their needs, it WILL be used. I really don't care what we call it, we know what this is, what its goal is, and it is our choice as to if and how WE choose to resist it....maybe fascistically??
Or are we too pure in thought to stoop so low??
Self preservation is never, ever stooping.
It's been a long, long time coming for these fucks. When the worm turns, it's gonna turn hard.
And it will be a bloodbath. Always is.
Nope, not at all. Only those that are worried about morals care about means.
History is not moral - it's just the story of the victors over the losers.
Pushy cunts win. Make your move.
How can they learn (which I understood was the point of being there) if they refuse to listen to, and intellectually challenge, alternative points of view? Quite apart from the First Amendment.
These kids don't know anything about the First Amendment or the Constitution.
Those that are stirring these twats are going after free speech for a very good reason. This is to open the door for the broader discussion that the Constitution and BoR are no longer relevant for today's society and that perhaps we need to adopt something more 'inclusive'.
A (fascist) rose by any other name is still a (fascist) rose.
Just thinking about you when giving my response to acetinker above.
Remember that essay you wrote about the affect that others's posts have upon the reader?
I cannot remember the title but would appreciate the link.
There are some types of folks who have an overwhelming desire to tell others how to live their lives. There are some folks who will fight back because they have NO desire to tell others how to live their lives and just want to be left alone to go about their business. The people who need control other people like to do it through it expanded laws and regulations and charge them for it with tax after tax. There are other people who when someone really needs help, and asks for it, that will do so and they won't ask for any money. The thought process is this: You might need help someday and maybe someone will help you.
Tonight, I met a Chinese professor from one of the universities in this locale. I invited him over for drinks and food on Saturday and he accepted. I have not hung out with anyone from China before. His English is not so great but I can figure it out. That could be an issue but I am sure I can work through it. We will invite the Ukrainian Crimean Russians over to further complicate matters of languages. I will invite my Bulgarian friend who is married to a Japanese woman and the Koreans we know. This couuld be a problem. There are issues between Japan, Korea and China and Russia. The Mrs wants to know why the Chinese are stealing the lumber out of Russia. Every one of these people have advanced degrees and are hightly intelligent. I will just sit off to the side and listen.
"Every one of these people have advanced degrees and are hightly intelligent. I will just sit off to the side and listen"
I expect you'll be disappointed. Academians live in a rarified atmosphere where each has their own speciality, but knows very little of the other's, to say nothing of the outside world and how it operates. Should be good for a few uncomfortable silences though, as everyone grasps for something neutral to discuss. Good luck!
Balls on.
Have plenty f booze on hand....and hide pointy objects.
Man, I bet employers are waiting at the gates to hire these brave and independent thinkers!
You can bet recruiters are on the MizzU campus now!
These are people who get a worthless piece of paper with no real skills to back it, and they want to go out and "manage" others immediately. Such are the egos of those who have been raised to be safely special.
I disagree. These are the people who will live in their parents basements as once their diva attitudes show up in the workplace they will be unemployed. Ronald McDonald will not put up with their shit.
Ronald McDonald doesn't need their shit. How sad is that?
A fkn clown you grew up with (all smiley-faced and shit) is rejecting you after feeding you frankenfood for most of your life?
There's a div/0 somewhere in this equation.
Testify!!
Yes, to be employed in the rapidly expanding "mindless screaming" industry.
She is a future faculty member or a university diversity officer.
All HR staff are members of the Commisariat, in desperate need of a lynching.
Emloyers like the US government.
They are literally salivating at the prospect of hiring these people.
That's what I was thinking. I see a long career in some 'public policy' gig for that one. Not just anyone can manufacture outrage like that and keep a straight face.
That's the whole point. Many employers will be salivating at the thought of "employing" them. Government, the likes of the Soros and Ford-funded 'charities', the UN and its countless offshoots. In fact any organization that does nothing productive will be glad to take them on.
'nascent fascism'. True. Those kids know they got money from .gov and their parents in hock to .gov, and they want .gov to continue, even if they have to kill their professors, parents and all else that gave them everything they are unwilling or unable to do for themselves.
Fascism is a disease. There are no cures, it can only be defeated as it was during WWII. Even then it doesn't just go into the night,,, it usually jumps to it's conqueror and disguises itself as populist, progressive, conservative or even communist,,, whatever it takes to secure positions in the political arena. Once secure it starts to rear its ugly head as it has in the USA and the West in general.
I noticed it after the WTC demolition derby. Many still hung on to the idea that it was communism but communism owns it all. Property, People and Production. Fascism is the merger of business and government. In the USA the fascists call it Private, Public Partnerships. Sounds a lot better. The fact the USA and the West are supporting Nazi Fascists in Ukraine should also be given serious thought.
The latest dead give away is the TPP trade pact with Asia and the other trade treaty with Europe. Now that is pure 100 percent USDA Fascism.
Sieig Heil!
Rayguns NAFTA aggreement was the TPP's fascist little sister, yet many americans are still all googly-eyed over Raygun's legacy yet he sold his country out so his buddies who owned the multinationals could go wage arbitrage shopping in third world countries and leave the US economy for dead at 20 trillion in debt and counting. Propoganda in the states is an amazing artiface.
Reagan left office in 1989. NAFTA was negotiated by old man Bush and signed by Clinton in 1994. They sold out the country too. There's no Reagan on the ballot these days but there is a Clinton and Bush. Now those are legacies that just keep on giving.
NAFTA was negotiated for years before it was signed, Raygun initiated the entire process and it was his afterbirth all over the document. Who closed the deal is of less importance
It was really Bush's administration after the ... er "Assassination" attempt...
(Btw, Bush's son was having dinner the night before with an old friend/business partner of the family, John Hinckley's brother. )
clinton, not Reagan - and therefore: wow.
Ignorant.
"Fascism is a disease."
I've always thought of fascism as a latent tendency which we all possess, not something you might catch, like a disease. Given the right conditions, we are all capable of some pretty horrific stuff. Anyone who denies that in themselves, yet points to it in others, is IMO well on the road to expressing that tendency.
"..Almost all Americans support the Bill of Rights, but not the rights of atheists to teach in schools or communists to have their books available in school libraries."
from The Loss of Happiness in Market Demcracies by prof R.Lane (from Yale)
"Fascist" is too kind. They are frightened, lumpy bullies and brats - as is the government that raised them. Collectivism at its finest.
I read somewhere awhile back that even comedians are turning down offers to perform at colleges now. They don't want to put up with the perpetually offended students was the reason they gave. Here's the worst part, these narcissistic, entitled, spoiled so called "students" are the future of this doomed country.
The people who support illegal immigration have always given the "they do the jobs Americans won't do" BS as an excuse to keep bringing them in. I see tons of young Americans of all races every day that would be greatly humbled by working the fields for a few months. Maybe then, they would appreciate that Ivy League college more when they got there.
Good cannon fodder for the next war I think.
A large number of "students" should not even be in college
Spot on. It's a total racket. Without 'diversity' (spit) on campus, schools don't get funding and grants, plus free cash money for students from the gubmint. These 'undeserved' populations fill out the diversity ranks and hit mandated quotas.
Of course, only a small percentage actually have any skills at all, and their course loads are filled with art history, gender studies, etc.
This crap doesn't disappear until things like med school and MBAs. That said, only 10% of applications to MBAs are female, yet top programmes often have 20-30% females in the class (much lower bar for women to enter a top 20 MBA).
Law schools are increasingly politically correct, lowering entry levels for women/minorities for 'diversity', and most importantly, rankings and free gubmint money/student loans. Many students are graduating from programmes unable to pass the bar exam.
Math, science, engineering and IT are dominated by Asian and white males. It's hilarious to hear libtards try to wrap their brains around that.
Full disclosure, I used to teach liberal arts courses at a prominent uni. Went back after several years and got my MBA (thankfully had economics and computer science to fall back on). Hated every f-ING minute of being on university staff. Hideous soul destroying useless profession, liberal arts prof.
They are people with marshmallow constitutions, too scared and self involved to open their eyes to see what the real problems are and the sad thing is that these are going to be the promiment adults of the country, the leaders. America is being destroyed from the inside, why don't they just set off a bunch of nukes and get it over with, it will be less painful that way!
Yes these are the Ethnic or womyns studies majors who, by dint of having Yale in their resume, will go on to other Universities and non-profits to spread their warped thinking to new generations and organizations.
20 years from now, they'll be the ones getting shouted down.
Everything gets returned.
I don't know where the writer got his information but these monkeys are following the communist agendas of "political correctness" and "social justice"
There is NO fascism in the actions of these out of control chimps.
Fascism is corporate/ business based. These social justice warriors are backed by that kike soros and everyone knows he is a big time commie...
Writer is wrong. Go do your research.