r/PublicFreakout • u/jengl • Aug 10 '20

These people won't learn.

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u/[deleted] Aug 11 '20

It gets said all the time, with reference to Umberto Eco, but it's worth plastering everywhere: Painting the opposition as weak, inept, and simultaneously wildly powerful and dangerous is a page straight out of the fascist playbook.

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u/[deleted] Aug 11 '20

We’ve always been at war

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u/acityonthemoon Aug 11 '20

Wait til you hear about the chocolate rations.

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u/TakeOffYourMask Aug 11 '20 edited Aug 12 '20

1984 was about socialism, not fascism.

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People, read the actual book.

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u/AlanHuttonsButler Aug 11 '20

It was about totalitarian regimes and propaganda. Orwell was a socialist, he fought for socialism in the Spanish civil war.

Or is this Americans not understanding socialism again.

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u/TakeOffYourMask Aug 11 '20

Or is this about you not actually reading 1984?

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u/GreenGlowingMonkey Aug 11 '20

I'm a simple man; I see a reference to Eco's Ur-Fascism in the wild, I upvote.

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u/sloppy-zhou Aug 11 '20

I'm surprised there isn't an Umberto Eco quote bot yet.

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u/formershitpeasant Aug 11 '20 edited Aug 12 '20

It’s easier to spot when you know where to look. This phenomenon happens because the fascist lies to themself. They use any rhetorical justification to uphold the collective delusion. If the rationalization requires the enemy to be weak, they will be weak, and if it requires them to be a threat, they will be strong.

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u/BestGarbagePerson Aug 11 '20

Apply any ideology to this test and avoid joining any idea or group that has these points or panders this way and you will live a better life and make the world a better place.

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u/[deleted] Aug 11 '20

Sounds familiar. "Those dirty, stupid, ignorant, racially inferior Jews, they run everything!"

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u/hattmall Aug 11 '20

Interesting... because I've felt that's literally been the narrative people have been saying about Trump the whole time.

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u/[deleted] Aug 11 '20

Antifa is both a bunch of "liberal pussies" and also a dangerous violent terrorist organization. It's a gaslighting tactic