Friday, May 16, 2025

Fascism is the New Racism

 https://x.com/antiwokememes/status/1923226906050404571?s=51&t=cLq01Oy84YkmYPZ-URIMYw

Fascism is the newest weapon in the arsenal of the ASPL/woke crowd.  If all esle fails just call anyone who disagrees a fascist and you automatically win.  

In this video clip you see a portion of a panel discussion and you see one woman (based on her statement about evolution, it's likely she's not a conservative) stating some incontrovertibly True facts.    She's even pretty gracious about it when the disagreement starts.   A few woke idiots get offended, yell a bit, then leave.   After they leave, the camera follows them out and they immediately start claiming that anyone making True statements with which they disagree is a "fascist" and that allowing someone to state the Truth (in a university of all places) is engaging in "fascism".   I could be wrong, but trying to use force or authority to silence those who tell Truth that you disagree with seems much more fascistic than allowing an open forum where differing viewpoints are presented.   They're clearly just parroting a script, and have no idea what they're really saying, in other words, useful idiots.  

That the guy at the end has to state the obvious, that a university should be a bastion of free speech and a place to foster disagreement, simply reinforces the conclusion that those ASPL/woke idiots want to silence those they disagree with.   Regardless of the Truth. 

 

11 comments:

Dan Trabue said...

Craig:

Fascism is the newest weapon in the arsenal of the ASPL/woke crowd. If all esle fails just call anyone who disagrees a fascist and you automatically win.

1. Trump and the lightweights in the maga "conservative" movement have been calling liberals fascists for years. Will you unequivocally condemn that damned foolish nonsense and slander?

Among Trump and his allies, the “fascist” label has been growing in popularity as an epithet for Democrats. Following his indictments, Trump has repeatedly referred to “radical left Democrats” as “fascists” And not just any old fascists. On August 1st, for example, Trump posted on Truth Social that the persecution he’d experienced from the “Biden Crime Family” was “reminiscent of Nazi Germany in the 1930s.”

https://time.com/6306945/donald-trump-democrats-fascists/

Also here and multiple other places...

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-clip-democrats-fascists-b2159062.html

Hopefully you are not so unaware of what your people are doing as to not know this. Will you condemn this practice of many conservatives, including the pervert you voted for, as scurrilous, dangerous slander and empty-headed falsehoods?

For starters. More...

Dan Trabue said...

Craig:

Fascism is the newest weapon in the arsenal of the ASPL/woke crowd. If all esle fails just call anyone who disagrees a fascist and you automatically win.

Likewise, in the real world, there are many scholars, historians, political experts (conservative and otherwise) and just normal people who are genuinely concerned about this Felon's (and his loyal supporters/shock troops) authoritarian/fascist lean.

The experts:

A survey of more than 500 political scientists finds that the vast majority think the United States is moving swiftly from liberal democracy toward some form of authoritarianism.

Not all political scientists view Trump with alarm, but many like Carey who focus on democracy and authoritarianism are deeply troubled by Trump's attempts to expand executive power over his first several months in office.

"We've slid into some form of authoritarianism," says Steven Levitsky, a professor of government at Harvard, and co-author of How Democracies Die. "It is relatively mild compared to some others. It is certainly reversible, but we are no longer living in a liberal democracy."

Kim Lane Scheppele, a Princeton sociologist who has spent years tracking Hungary, is also deeply concerned: "We are on a very fast slide into what's called competitive authoritarianism."

When these scholars use the term "authoritarianism," they aren't talking about a system like China's, a one-party state with no meaningful elections. Instead, they are referring to something called "competitive authoritarianism," the kind scholars say they see in countries such as Hungary and Turkey.


https://www.npr.org/2025/04/22/nx-s1-5340753/trump-democracy-authoritarianism-competive-survey-political-scientist

Hundreds of scholars have genuine concerns, along with normal people who are seeing the exact same troubling practices and attitudes that the experts are seeing. If one is familiar with world history, it's not hard to recognize.

The things we're seeing that are troubling include:

Trump's unrelenting attacks, demonizations and legal actions against legitimate news organizations simply doing their job.

Trump's unrelenting attacks, demonizations and legal actions against legitimate legal operations simply doing their job.

Trump's unrelenting attacks, demonizations and legal actions against legitimate judges simply doing their job.

Trump's ACTUAL use of the DoJ as a weapon against perceived political enemies.

For instance, it's NOT A CRIME to refer to "8647." THAT is not a death threat nor a call for assassinating the president. It's just not. Period. And it's WAY extreme political overreach to even THREATEN a legal investigation over something as Nothing as that and then, to actually start an investigation, that's an abuse of power.

Beyond that, Trump and his allies have engaged in far worse than that - ACTUALLY promoting violence towards political enemies ("If you assault them, I'll bail you out..." Remember that? Remember the hundreds of way he's threatened political opponents (and oftentimes, ALLIES!) for merely daring to disagree with that autocrat? These are the actions of an autocrat, someone leaning into the practices and beliefs found in fascists.

cont'd...

Dan Trabue said...


Further, it's not a matter of ALL these experts, historians and normal people just deciding in a snit not to like Trump and so, call him a fascist. This is a common concern for half the nation, including some conservatives.

https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/donald-trump-fascist-concerns-poll/story?id=115083795

Including many of Trump's own conservative aides/former aides!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=t5iHT3CN3l8

These are not some lightweight, simple-minded conspiracy theories of a few unintelligent people who simple "hate Trump" for no reason. It's a widespread concern of half the nation, including scholars, conservatives, Trump's own allies and the rest of us... and not for nothing but for the reason that Trump's policies, words, actions and behaviors are reminiscent of those employed by fascists and autocrats.

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/how-trumps-rhetoric-compares-to-historic-fascist-language

Craig said...

1. Excellent first response. Falling back on "The other guys did it." is a strong opening.

As I've never applauded, encouraged, or called people "fascists" nor have I universally condoned Trump's rhetoric, I see no reason to play your games until you do what you demand that I do.

Craig said...

Dan musters up some unattributed, unsourced, "quotes" from unnamed "experts" and pretends like that is somehow incontrovertible proof. Unfortunately, it's just Dan doing the double standard.

As far as the 8647 thing, as 86 is a euphemism for "remove, kill, end, etc" it really is much more dependent on the intent of the person rather than this idiotic insistence that Dan knows all. It could be, and therefore it's not unreasonable to investigate. Strangely enough, someone posing with Trump's bloody "decapitated head", or an actual assassination attempt doesn't get you this worked up.

Strange that Harris actually raising money to actually bail out violent rioters, doesn't bother you at all.

Look, your side just had someone blow up a pregnancy center, may dial back on the bullshit for a bit.

Craig said...

I'll give you this, when you get motivated to make excuses for your side, you go all in.

Marshal Art said...

As I'm just checking in whilst preparing to leave for an appointment, I notice Dan's desperate attempt to validate his hatred of Trump. But what's blatantly obvious is the lack of context. Once again, to simply say one is violent because one shot one...without adding any context to understand why the choice to shoot another was made...liars like Dan can pervert the story to project their hatefulness upon the shooter, who may have been defending innocent life against a murder with a gun.

Thus, we must understand Trump's expressions with regard to the press and the courts and political opponents. To know the details provides justification for Trump's opinions about these various entities. Dan prefers to simply smear the man as if he's doing wrong.

More later.

Craig said...

The problem with Dan's attempt to paint trump and his supporters as "fascists" is (very simply) the evidence. Trump served for 4 years and did not turn the US into a "fascist" nation. So far, into this term, still no "fascism". One attempt I've seen is to try to make the parade Trump wants to have to celebrate 250 years of US independence into some sort of "fascist" military thing. To equate it to the annual May Day parades of the Soviets. As someone who lived through the year long bicentennial celebration, it seems like one parade to celebrate 250 is not unreasonable.

Trump is certainly free to spew his opinions, regardless of how unhelpful or pointless they might be, and to do things like control access to the WH press room, but that's a far cry from incarcerating or muzzling journalists.

As I noted elsewhere, if one looks at the actions of the Biden/Harris administration along with the weatherization of the courts under various left wing jurisdictions, it's not unrealistic to note that the ASPL has engaged in the actions that they fearmonger about.

As noted, Dan hasn't even bothered to address (let alone disprove) the primary thesis of this post. (as "racist" has lost it's effectiveness, "fascist" has replaced it as the universal rhetorical cudgel for those who have nothing else)

Marshal Art said...

As I began saying down below, there's a huge difference between accusations of fascism by the lying left about Trump versus using the word to label Biden or the Democrat Party and their supporters in general. It's not at all accurate or supported by any evidence to accuse Trump of fascism, for as Craig notes elsewhere, Trump's had ample opportunity to so indulge had he a mind to do so. Indeed, he had just cause to have Hillary Clinton tried for her illegal handling of classified documents, as the law does not require intent to convict. But he dropped his campaign rhetoric of having her jailed. Biden, however, and his fascistic administration and supporters, went after Trump at every opportunity, all of it imagined and/or invented to rationalize doing so. They indulged the fascistic, "show me the man, I'll show you the crime" philosophy. Now that he's back in office, he has legit cause to hold accountable those who ill treated him without cause, yet we're not seeing it...at least not yet.

The left is fascistic despite Dan's frantic attempts to separate himself and his kind from the actions of even him and definitely his kind. Accusations of Trump being a fascist is just another example of progressive projection.

Craig said...

"Trump's unrelenting attacks, demonizations and legal actions against legitimate judges simply doing their job."

One can only imagine that you are referring to the judge who stopped a trail of two illegal aliens who's attacked (harmed) innocent victims, personally escorted the illegal aliens out of her courtroom (in front of the victims), and facilitated their escape both from ICE and from the charge they were being tried for. How is the hell is that a legitimate role for a judge to play?

To hell with the victims of crime perpetrated by illegal aliens when it's on the "right side". You lack of empathy or concern for the innocent victims here is almost as nonexistent as your lack of concern for the innocents in Israel being randomly attacked.

Marshal Art said...

"Trump's unrelenting attacks, demonizations and legal actions against legitimate news organizations simply doing their job."

But they're NOT doing their jobs. That's the problem and the justification for Trump's disparagement. It is the leftist media outlets...the least "journalistic" of the entire industry...who is unrelenting in their attacks and demonization of Trump...simply for doing his job and doing it far better than their Democrat overlords.

"Trump's unrelenting attacks, demonizations and legal actions against legitimate legal operations simply doing their job."

Again, they're not doing their jobs, but acting politically to prevent the election of Trump, his ability to run for office and his ability to actually do his job one in office. Biden's handlers and other miscreants in the public sector have weaponized the law enforcement community to go after, not just Trump, but members of his circle and also members of the general public seeking change through actual peaceful protest, such as in front of abortion clinics or at school board meetings. And I'm still trying to figure out just what the hell problem the Biden people had with Catholics who prefer a Latin Mass!!

"
Trump's unrelenting attacks, demonizations and legal actions against legitimate judges simply doing their job."


Aside from Craig's example, there's also the matter of judges who engaged in political persecution of Trump, convicting him after a trial rife with errors which will likely get his convictions overturned. There's not one of the trials Trump endured that an honest, non-partisan judge wouldn't have thrown out for lack of merit or standing. How does a judge not approve of a change of venue in the case where Trump was convicted? Or the civil case where Trump was raped financially for the false rape charge which was never proven to any extent whatsoever in the criminal trial? For Trump to voice his contempt for these judges, or even to call for an investigation into them, is hardly an example of fascism, authoritarianism or any other negative "ism" the lying pervert lefties can conjure to denigrate a man of far better character and quality than any of them.

All in all, this list is just projection. It's a case of attacking a man unjustly and then whining because he's defending himself.