02-08-2020, 01:26 PM
Except for fascists themselves... everybody is an anti-fascist. A reactionary traditionalist like Sir Winston Churchill could see nothing good in Hitler. He was right.
I would burn a flag in the presence of fascists. A Nazi flag or a Confederate flag, depending upon the sensibilities of the fascist, of course. I'd proudly display Old Glory, though. Forty-eight stars and thirteen stripes must have been welcome sights to victims of Buchenwald (the US Army got that far before retreating in accordance with the arrangement with the Soviet Union), Dachau and Mauthausen.
Fascism must hide its ugliness, much as a child molester must create a benign facade. Nobody could molest a child by promising shame and pain that the molester seeks to inflict; first come benign promises. So we tell children to not accept treats or adventures from complete strangers.
I would burn a flag in the presence of fascists. A Nazi flag or a Confederate flag, depending upon the sensibilities of the fascist, of course. I'd proudly display Old Glory, though. Forty-eight stars and thirteen stripes must have been welcome sights to victims of Buchenwald (the US Army got that far before retreating in accordance with the arrangement with the Soviet Union), Dachau and Mauthausen.
Fascism must hide its ugliness, much as a child molester must create a benign facade. Nobody could molest a child by promising shame and pain that the molester seeks to inflict; first come benign promises. So we tell children to not accept treats or adventures from complete strangers.
The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated Communist but instead the people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists -- Hannah Arendt.