Posted on 08/17/2017 7:07:27 AM PDT by EBH
Word Origin and History for fascism n. 1922, originally used in English 1920 in its Italian form (see fascist ). Applied to similar groups in Germany from 1923; applied to everyone since the rise of the Internet.
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. [Robert O. Paxton, "The Anatomy of Fascism," 2004]
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I do see the entire far-Left doing nearly ALL those things including now what we are witnessing as the beginning of internal and external cleansing. It truly amazes me that they don't/can't or refuse to acknowledge it themselves.
History aside, today’s Antifa here in the US is a terrorist organization. Their counterparts in Europe are already labeled as such. Time we do the same and simply arrest them wherever they gather. If armed, shoot them.
Not seeing the text from the exert when I follwed the link.
Why are these terrorists not being arrested for covering their faces during their tyranny?
Where are the stockades that law enforcement throw them into, remove their masks, and then ID them? There are laws against what they’re doing? Calling law and justice! Where is it?
The antifa are the fascists.
I use this one as a litmus test: If someone is for the minimum wage, I explain to them that it is textbook fascism.
Most people that use the label don’t know what it means.
Words I’ve noticed bandied about lately that the ones using don’t themselves understand:
1. Fascist
2. Socialist
3. Bigot
4. Racist
With the exception of number 2, I’ve noticed that usually when someone uses the label to describe someone else, they are simply projecting their own attributes onto another person. An example would be a person who voted for Obama because he is black accusing you of voting against him because he’s black.
Neither does anyone else.
When they use those words, they are lying, and they know it.
It is there, scroll down to the Word Origin and History for fascism section
The Antifa and their ilk are Brownshirts. Globalist, not nationalist, Brownshirts.
I think we’re not seeing it (law enforcement) for adding fuel to the fire they are trying to start.
It’s hard to correct the rhetoric once the left gets their new definitions around it. Coming down heavy handed on them will trigger an even more violent backlash. Rounding them up etc. will have the appearance of totalitarianism they want.
So the question is what is the strategy to use?
Ah, I can see it now on computer. Wasn’t able to scroll down to it on my phone.
Surrendering to thugs is not an option either. It’s like watching a child throw a tantrum and giving in to them.
It’s like the Jews watching Hitler come to power and doing nothing until the Gestapo knocks on your door.
Many words don’t have the same meanings as what we understood just 10 years ago.
Antifa are NAZIs who think they’ve found their Horst Wessel in Charlottesville.
Yup
Antifa is fa af, and should be called Profa.
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