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Originally Posted by Shame Trolly !!!1!
Well, what social scientists do, is they look for certain historical similarities that provide academically useful categories. To effectively communicate regarding these categories, they give them names. You're doing things the other way around, what I call 'Dictionary Thinking'.
In this case, social scientists noticed certain historical similarities in particular Euro regimes in the mid 20th century. They find this catagory academically useful as these regimes correlate perfectly with war mongering, among other outcomes. They named this category 'fascism'.
That's not what you're doing. You're editorially picking and choosing which of those similarities you wanna count as indicative of 'einbert-fascism' (ex: strongman cult), and which of those similarities you don't wanna count as indicative of 'einbert-facism' (ex: virulent anti-socialism).
Hi there, I want to make sure I understand your point. I realize this is an older post, but I wanted to reply to it anyway.
So personally, I think that either Donald Trump, and/or those around him that he bends to, are Fascists. Are you saying that the proper way to argue this would be to point out something like this:
The Trump Administration has created a new office to report on crimes that undocumented immigrants have committed.
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President Donald Trump used Tuesday's joint address to Congress to call attention to crimes committed by undocumented immigrants, inviting guests affected by such crimes and describing a new office he has ordered created to report them
http://www.cnn.com/2017/02/28/politi...ing/index.html
This scapegoating of undesirable members of society (immigrants, in this case), is similar to what the Nazis did when they published crimes committed by Jews.
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In the 1930s, the Nazis used a similar tactic to stir up anger and hatred toward Jews. Professor Richard Weikart of California State University explained that Nazi leaders used different kinds of communication tools to sell the message that “Jews are criminal by disposition,” as a 1943 Nazi directive to the German press put it. “The Jews are not a nation like other nations but bearers of hereditary criminality,” the order said. Germany, in other words, was out of control, and only Nazi anti-Semitic policies could “restore order.”
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/...he-didnt-like/
Therefor, this is an indicator that the Trump Administration is Fascistic. Also, do you take issue with einbert's characterization of Socialism? If so, why?
I'm interested in your perspective.
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