Is it hypocritical to use fascist-sounding language to describe fascists?
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Question: Is it hypocritical to use fascist-sounding language to describe fascists?
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« on: November 22, 2015, 12:10:32 PM »

I ask because I've noticed a lot of the rhetoric directed toward far right rallies and whatnot tends to sound the same as the wording they use. "These people are trash", "filth", "cleanse them" "I would love to cleanse this filth", etc. One of my music forums' threads on Greece basically turned into a couple people posting fantasies about how much they would love to torture and kill Golden Dawn supporters.

But I vote no because the people this stuff is directed to affiliate with such things by choice so it's not the same as the fascists' hatred.
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« Reply #1 on: November 22, 2015, 12:14:21 PM »

Yes, obviously. Harboring these kinds of sentiments is what allows fascist movements to start.
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« Reply #2 on: November 22, 2015, 02:01:27 PM »

Absolutely.
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« Reply #3 on: November 22, 2015, 02:54:47 PM »

No, because fascism doesn't refer to "using nasty sounding rhetoric". Also fascists should DIAF.
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« Reply #4 on: November 22, 2015, 03:45:50 PM »

No, because fascism doesn't refer to "using nasty sounding rhetoric". Also fascists should DIAF.
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« Reply #5 on: November 24, 2015, 01:23:46 AM »

Not suprised with the results given this forum's uncomfortably casual attitude to droning political opponents.
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« Reply #6 on: November 28, 2015, 01:27:16 AM »

Jesus Atlas is such full of pussies and/or fascist coddlers...
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« Reply #7 on: November 28, 2015, 01:48:26 AM »

There are worse things in the world than a little hypocrisy.  Like fascism, for instance. 

One should of course try to act in good will and good faith, but obsessively hewing to pure even-handedness can have disastrous results, and trying to appeal to such impulses is a favorite trick of these sorts of sh*tstains.

(This is in fact a great illustration of my stance over here that utilitarianism and virtue ethics are both good and necessary in proper proportion, whereas deontology sucks donkey balls.  FWIW.)
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