JA Westenberg
@joanwestenberg.eth
Here’s a question for you. Why is it that advocating for universal healthcare or affordable education instantly earns you the “Socialist” stamp, while demanding mass deportation isn’t enough to get you called a “Fascist?” (Hint: it’s not because you’re *not* a Fascist) Today’s daily essay: https://joanwestenberg.com/the-f-word-were-too-fucking-scared-to-say
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Mike | Abundance
@abundance
Major media does call Trump a fascist tho.. Can point to examples from CNN, NYT & MSNBC just in the past few weeks.
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Mike | Abundance
@abundance
I think the problem is not that the "fascist" label is too extreme. It's that people have a lot more associations with "communist"/"socialist" (as a common presence throughout the cold war) than they do with fascism. Any associations they do have with fascism (Hitler, Mussolini) seem to be too remote to apply.
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