“...the word ‘Fascism’ is almost entirely meaningless. In conversation, of course, it is used even more wildly than in print. I have heard it applied to farmers, shopkeepers, Social Credit, corporal punishment, fox-hunting, bull-fighting, the 1922 Committee, the 1941 Committee, Kipling, Gandhi, Chiang Kai-Shek, homosexuality, Priestley’s broadcasts, Youth Hostels, astrology, women, dogs and I do not know what else... almost any English person would accept ‘bully’ as a synonym for ‘Fascist’.” -George Orwell 1944
Great quotation. Completely agree. The word fascist has become entirely meaningless. Paul was right to question it, esepcially nobody who trumpets the term uses it for Egypt, Pakistan, Afghanistan, which are often just as repressive toward minorities.