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tekla | karma 2501 | avg karma 2.18 · 2024-02-26 15:34:49

> particularly given fascism is hard to define

Than don't throw around "fascist" as an insult, which seems to be incredibly common.

graemep | karma 2386 | avg karma 1.99 · 2024-02-26 16:25:35

I agree. It is quite worry that the word fascist is used so loosely because we forget what it really means. Even worse, the same is happening to the better defined term Nazi.

atoav | karma 17844 | avg karma 3.79 · 2024-02-26 16:52:29

As an aside, to judge whether something is fascist or not going through the 14 points made by Umberto Eco helps a lot: https://www.openculture.com/2016/11/umberto-eco-makes-a-list...

Umberto Eco grew up during italian fascism so he kinda knew.

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