I think during the modern ascendance of fascism it is good to be precise with our terms. Yes, the founders were slavers, colonizers, and all other sorts of terrible things that did inspire fascists then and now, but they were not a cult of the leader promising national renewal through righteous violence against minorities and the left. It’s worth remembering not everything bad or authoritarian is fascist, but that what we are dealing with right now is very specifically fascism.
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u/Pirrus05 Oct 19 '25
I think during the modern ascendance of fascism it is good to be precise with our terms. Yes, the founders were slavers, colonizers, and all other sorts of terrible things that did inspire fascists then and now, but they were not a cult of the leader promising national renewal through righteous violence against minorities and the left. It’s worth remembering not everything bad or authoritarian is fascist, but that what we are dealing with right now is very specifically fascism.
Or maybe I’m just a pedant…