Comment on We don't use the word 'fascist' because we wish harm on anybody. We use it because words mean things.

frustrated@lemmy.world ⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

I do not want to be seen as defending fascists or being obscurantist but I regularly encounter normal people who literally never learned how to identify a fascist. To them, it vaguely means authoritarian and imperialistic and deploying it in conversations within an american context seems unnecessarily inflammatory. The average person has neither the time nor the inclination be as plugged into politics as we are. Words actually do mean things…just different things to different people.

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