Why is everything normal called fascist?

[@Lancersilva]

I was called a fascist for saying that I prefer small government, increased individual liberty, and hating taxes. I’m no political scientist but I’d say I’m a fascist’s polar opposite.

[@Bayoubebe]

Thank you!!👏🏼👏🏼

[@gamer1X12]

Literally the opposite of fascism 😂 libs are so dumb!

[@dakotataylor4849]

It’s easy to call someone fascist when you can’t define fascist. Kinda like the work F!ck. You f!cker, i f!cling love you, check this f!cking thing out bro, f!cl that, ect ect

[@DarkstarArchangel]

The fools who said that sound no-different than flat-earthers.

[@gotistgro9167]

"fascist" is the wrong wording in this case, but if you're really for total individual liberty, then you'd also have to get rid of borders and nations, since those ideological constructions are restrictions to liberty as well. also pure corporate based economy could (and most probably would) lead to production monopoly of the wealthiest corporations, which isn't different to centralized state-based production

[@rightwingsafetysquad9872]

A history professor called me a fascist because i asked her to define fascism.

[@p6v665]

me when i make stuff up

[@rightwingsafetysquad9872]

@@p6v665 Obviously there was more to it. But the whole story doesn't make for as witty of a YT comment. Nonetheless, as written it does properly convey the spirit of how it happened.

[@p6v665]

@@rightwingsafetysquad9872 yeah, totally. im sure that really happened.

[@p6v665]

@@rightwingsafetysquad9872 your profile picture is of caeser (italian fascists very frequently used the roman empire as a “return to traditionalism” symbol) and your username is “right wing safety squad”. youre watching a groyper video titled “why is everything normal fascist” your teacher probably wasnt far off

[@rightwingsafetysquad9872]

@@p6v665 It's just a meme bro. Caesar was the globohomo of his day. Anyway, I was a pretty normie Republican at the time. I got kinda tired of being told about the horrors of fascism, but no one ever bothered to even define the term. Or worse, ascribe crimes Germany was accused of to fascism completely not realizing that fascism and national socialism are different things. To which I was told that hard definitions are an expression of fascism. Which is weird because Mussolini said "nation is a feeling", amongst many other things that suggest to me that fascists didn't care too much about hard definitions.

[@emailsucks28]

Being called names in 2024 is an honor . Those words mean nothing to someone with conviction and dignity . Sticks and stones ...

[@Skeletors_Closet]

I tell Christians this all of the time. If you are offended by something, it’s because you are not confident in yourself or your actions. When you have confidence in your faith and beliefs, you’ll just keep scrolling/walking. Name calling is for the kids.

[@BillLaBrie]

I love being called names by people who passionately deny words have any meaning.

[@coltonwilkie241]

Sticks and stones will never break my bones and I'm damn confident that words will only make me laugh is the new saying.

[@fo76]

One thing that shocks me most with my predominantly left-wing friends is that if you defend someone's freedom of opinion you're automatically accused of having that same opinion - for them, freedom of speech only applies if you think what they think.

[@fourlightsorchestra]

It’s funny, most people on the right hold this same viewpoint. The saying “I may not agree with what he says, but I’ll fight to the death for his right to say it”, is only said when someone on the right says something extreme. You’ll never hear a right wing talking head say this about anyone on the left when they say something.

[@maorthekinglong]

One opinion for all is totalitarian. It's 1984 or 1933

[@jackroyaltea5034]

Which is wild considering that is literally the only time freedom of speech means a damn. When people are saying things you vehemently disagree with.

[@Tyler_W]

Exactly. It's duplicitous authoritarian thinking. It's why the left used to be advocates of free speech in the past and why now they aren't. The thought leaders were only ever interested in their freedom until they had acquired or believed that they had acquired enough power to assert their own values. "When I am weaker than you, I ask for freedom because that is according to your principles; when I am stronger than you, I take away your freedom because that is according to my principles." God-Emperor Leto Atreides II in Frank Herbert's Children of Dune.

[@MrUltranuman]

Yes. This is a recurring issue with quite a few on the left.

[@MalachiWhite-tw7hl]

Because they wore out "racist" and "sexist"?

[@Jadty]

Oy!

[@chrismckell5353]

Oh no they're still misusing and diluting those, adding transphobic and fat phobic to old favourites like misogynist islamaphobe and antisemite.

[@Minotaur-ey2lg]

They’ve worn out fascist too.

[@sneezyfido]

When they throw out the triple whammy you know you said something they feel insecure about

[@sneezyfido]

When they throw out the triple whammy you know you said something they feel insecure about

[@DeadEndFrog]

"When I am Weaker Then You, I ask you for Freedom because that is according to your principles; when I am Stronger than you, I take away your Freedom Because that is according to my principles." Politics in a nuttshell

[@stahlgott]

Isn't this is a quote from one of the Dune books, is it?

[@DeadEndFrog]

@@stahlgott indeed!

[@stahlgott]

@@DeadEndFrog Frank Herbert knew everything before it became cool 😅

[@DeadEndFrog]

@@stahlgott indeed, one should be sceptical of any politician

[@smokenfire]

This is literally all Islamic "immigration" in history. All of it. Ever.

[@stephenoverdorf4917]

I was called a fascist by a teacher as a freshman in high school….the first of many in those four years. I simply stated that a mother’s place was with her children….

[@hazchemel]

Hahaha that's apocalyptic dynamite

[@genestone4951]

Yes, protecting western tradition and fighting evil is fascism lol. The one true war is stirring again.

[@arcadius2423]

​@thenunt The Fool never knows when he is being foolish.

[@mabaker]

And a father's place is to earn money and provide a living for the family and yet you are here on KZbin without a job and kids and commenting.

[@stephenoverdorf4917]

@@mabaker looks like I hit a nerve.

[@I_am_Raziel]

They use it as a weapon to silence their opponents.

[@joecoffey4199]

"Silence their opponents." Page one of the fascist playbook.

[@TheSulross]

projection (accusing those they hate of being exactly what they are) is their number one tactic - they use projection relentlessly

[@arthurzettel6618]

Get called a Fascist they get called a Communist or a Stallinist.

[@TheSulross]

@@arthurzettel6618 difference being is those they call fascist aren't even remotely fascist whereas they really are communist

[@iluvmusicqwe]

The Nuremberg Regime

[@Don-ds3dy]

Literally seen a dude call nuclear families "fascist" like dude that's just how humans survived and existed for the last 600k years.

[@tomigun5180]

But, since they can only keep their power, if they destroy the family, so that the communist state can raise the children, like it was written in Brave New World, the institution of the family is their enemy Nr.1.

[@jordanl2131]

nuclear families aren’t fascist but also nothing else you said is true. nuclear families are relatively new

[@mario10zeus]

We've had extended families, but also nuclear when men have been more self sufficient

[@jordanl2131]

@@mario10zeus maybe although that sounds like it was pulled out ur ass. either way this wasn’t in every society. there plenty of societies in which nuclear families weren’t a thing at all. my point is it’s not human nature like people want to believe, it’s all nurture

[@tbone450r]

The nuclear family isn’t that old only dates back to the 1920’s

[@hinduismwithpremananddasbhagat]

I was called a racist fascist when a guy was literally caught by me stealing things from the store I worked at. He said he'd call a lawyer. Okay, I said, please sue us for being racist fascists for not letting you steal hundreds of dollars of merchandise.

[@SF2036]

That's a person who thinks they are entitled to be disruptive chaos agent. What you did has nothing to do with fascism or racism.

[@iandungeon273]

@@SF2036law and order is literally fascism these days 😂

[@SF2036]

@@iandungeon273 Well not literally literally. Literally an exaggeration though. These out of touch activists need to kick rocks man.

[@iandungeon273]

@@SF2036 I agree, I’m curious to see what the next “bad thing” they will call people who they disagree with will be

[@SF2036]

@@iandungeon273 I really wonder where the motivation comes from, because this is all so deranged it has to be more than virtue signaling and political greed. I think it's some sort of global oligarchy that's taken advantage of a pernicious ideology to take over the institutions and destabilize society on appeals to emotion rather than reason. Probably stems from the Frankfurt school and Weimar Republic hence the tendency to label everyone an Austrian painter just for opposing a worldview that is woefully inadequate at being honest.

[@Zayli87]

I've been called a fascist for being ex-Muslim and criticizing Islam publicly

[@crayonchomper1180]

Isn't Islam literally Fascism: the Religion

[@Zayli87]

@@crayonchomper1180 indeed. Totalitarian to the core.

[@chrismckell5353]

​@@crayonchomper1180I think the word you're looking for is authoritarian, facism is a merger of state and corporations which tends to be authoritarian as does communism.

[@mikkek7555]

​@@crayonchomper1180No it's not, but it is 'right wing' if we use that term how traditionalists use it, unless i'm mistaken. Right wing as a term is a bit abstract today I feel like, it is easy for folks to have very different definitions of it making conversation relating to it hard unless defined.

[@mikkek7555]

​​@@crayonchomper1180Also that's a far off simplification and misunderstanding of Islam. Islamic world is literally one of, if not the last place of normal society left today, ofc there's corrupt elements in many islamic communities/societies (saudi arabia a prime example) but as a generalization my comment stands. Totalitarianism is present in Salafism which is a modern movement inside Islam not at all 'real' Islam, it has a heavy focus on legalism, exotericism, denying of esoterism and literal interpretations of quran's surahs.

[@seamusdoherty]

The people calling everyone fascist have become fascist themselves.

[@squatch545]

The people calling everyone woke have become woke themselves.

[@SvendleBerries]

@@squatch545 Calling out insanity and wanting shit to just be normal again isnt "woke". It wouldnt be so bad if the wokies wouldnt shit themselves with rage every time their shitty projects tanked because nobody wanted it. Silence is violence, criticism is violence, "If you dont like it, dont buy it!", "Why is nobody buying our crap!? Must be a bunch of racists!" blah blah blah.

[@robertallan6373]

@@squatch545 Certainly not what I see.

[@squatch545]

@@robertallan6373 Nobody cares what you see.

[@robertallan6373]

@@squatch545 And do you think anyone cares what you think lol.

[@wohargRadu]

Because it is meant to be an insult. It is used by intellectually limited people who are unable to argue rationally with people who don't share their opinions. It can be translated as "Errr ... I don't like what you say but can't explain why."

[@elenatramsti5176]

I totally agree. Thanks for sharing.

[@Bayoubebe]

Well said

[@thecastleofenlightenment2604]

facism has always just been code for traditionally normal. if you support something that is traditionally normal that technically means you lean Fascist. They're right, you're just soft and triggered by labels. Who care if they call you a fascist. if anything embrace it

[@scot6089]

@@wohargRadu That's really dumb.

[@mrastronaut9078]

@@scot6089 why?

[@Nick-te2zj]

You get the most flak when you’re over the target. Western culture is to be appreciated. It was we who freed the slaves, who conquer disease, and who fight against tyranny. I will never apologize for the noble culture from which I come.

[@Nesher92]

I was called a fascist for arguing that the cultural traditions of your country should have a more prominent position than those of some immigrants. Namely how I (an agnostic) am not in favor of muslims praying in front of catholic churches in Italy. This act is disrespectful and it has an obvious subtext religious conquest which is not acceptable anymore in my country.

[@briancox9357]

Catholicism has a history of abuse and oppression, as does Islam. Your gods are non existent.

[@sdrc92126]

Everybody should read _The Doctrine of Fascism,_ all 20 pages of it, and have them explain how your beliefs fit in.

[@remusbrotherofromulus4103]

In my university classroom my lecturer and the majority of the classroom said that I had internalised fascism for stating that a disabled person would have a more difficult life than a non-disabled person if all else is equal. People who hold normal values should forgo non-necessary education. We ought to study the classics in our own time while we take formal education in engineering, architecture, medicine, or a trade. Fantastic video btw, you got a new subscriber for life 👍👍

[@elenatramsti5176]

Your suggestion about education is excellent. Repeat it and do it often. I will do so as well. Non-necessary education is not only a rip-off but it can often destroy the mind and society in that it attempts to change the natural inclination towards such things as fairness, beauty, excellence and justice while promoting an unnatural one leading to feelings of self-doubt, anger, frustration and lack of motivation.

[@tingle2958]

Internalized fascism 😂 These people don't recognize a trendy meaningless leftist buzzword when they see one, but we do

[@Masqued1]

I got called a Fascist by a woke male feminist because I supported Tulsi Gabbard! Now I'm reading Nietzsche and Evola so I guess I'm a "Super Fascist" ha, ha.

[@tantalus1210]

Lol a teacher in highschool confiscated my book(Nietzsche's On the Genealogy of Moral) and call my mom to tell her I was becoming a neo n... Something about Nietzsche love of virtue, beauty and truth, I guess.

[@darktimesatrockymountainhi4046]

Überfascist

[@Reinhard_Erlik]

Noothing wrong with being Fascist.

[@wannabecarguy]

I really thought skin heads and the KKK was a thing of the past. Then this older guy talked about how he spent most of his life helping the black community and he had decided to embrace racism after watching the protests.

[@CMA418]

Self-fulfilling prophecy!

[@Neuman357]

Childhood friend of mine (who’s a lefty) pulled me aside to explain what stuff I shouldn’t talk about in front of his DnD group. 1 thing (I kidd you not) was to not bring up “personal responsibility”.

[@Severian_of_the_Guild]

Looks like there's no honor among thieves™ after all

[@JusTTheWayiam-q9h]

Exactly. These people are total POS…

[@aurelian2668]

Hah! Socialist really just want free shit instead of working for it XD

[@oscaraurelio8869]

Just asking for a friend, if personal responsibility is out of the topics about which to talk, were they relying on a dice roll to do everything, from defining a character to making choice in their paths during their DnD sessions, up to the point they would entrust their actual lives on a dice roll, like that character in the Dice Man?

[@sirrodneyffing1]

I dumped a lefty friend of 30 years recently. I just got sick of him rolling his eyes, sneering or smirking every time I expressed a non liberal opinion. I put up with it for old times sake..but I just gave up, nobody needs to put up with that.

[@Man_fay_the_Bru]

If they call me fascist I know I’m doing something right🤷‍♂️

[@itssteve6018]

Nobody understands the definition of fascism, including you.

[@asamcbrez4930]

Well maybe it is...

[@opossumlvr1023]

@@itssteve6018 Fascism was formed as an ideology in 1917 after the last two great monarchies of Europe were ended by Communism following WWI. Without the Nationalist monarchies of Germany and Russia there was nothing to oppose the spread of Communism. A replacement for monarchism had to be found as it was ultimately to weak to fight the red terror. A new stronger nationalist ideology was necessary to oppose the commies and it was so strong that it took three empires, England, Russia and the USA to defeat it. Germany's economic recovery following the Wiemar Republic was the so swift and effective that modern nations should adopt the economic policies of post Wiemar Republic Germany.

[@mikeike9371]

​@@itssteve6018Fascism always appears as reactionary movements opposed to communism and cultural nihilism.

[@guilhermegarcia8750]

​@@mikeike9371 so being against genocide is cultural nihilism?

[@deanswift9132]

My friend chose a surgeon on principles of diversity and inclusion. She died.

[@treesurgeon2441]

Those two sentences told quite a story.

[@knighterrant7212]

​@@MrJanes-cl5sjEven if the comment's untrue, that very thing has and will continue to happen. Per chance even to you.

[@Treblaine]

When you select for anything other than quality then quality will suffer. The have sold us a lie that refusing to be biased one way and judging people by the content of their character is somehow racism.

[@philospeakNOW]

I haiku'ed it for you: "Chose surgeon with care, Diversity as her guide, Yet death did reside."

[@treesurgeon2441]

@@MrJanes-cl5sj You seem very familiar with the Steve Bannon show. But besides that the argument is that prioritizing diversity will always produce bad results not that there are no competent surgeons of every ethnicity.

[@gfrpsn]

"Left wing violence is considered free speech. Right wing free speech is considered violence." Redeemed Zoomer YT channel

[@kiliandrilltzsch8272]

thats goes unbelievebly hard holly shit. i got goosebumps from that kinda

[@fancyelk2373]

I remember I was chatting with the lady cutting my hair at the barbershop and mentioned I was planning to get a Norse runic tattoo, because I love Norse mythology. And she said without missing a beat “if I didn’t already know you were normal I’d have called you a white supremacist for that.” I was pretty stunned. Can’t even enjoy mythology without it being political these days.

[@ScottPalmer-mp1we]

Himmler was really fascinated by runes and used them as insignias on SS regalia.

[@reasonwarrior]

​@ScottPalmer-mp1we Someone evil liked a thing, therefore anyone who likes the thing is also evil. Leftist logic 101.

[@tradingjedi63]

@@ScottPalmer-mp1wethat’s true. And Hitler drank water. It’s pretty sus when someone drinks water because they’re basically acting like a fascist

[@ScottPalmer-mp1we]

@@tradingjedi63 Agreed. I was just pointing out a historical fact.

[@animal0mother]

@ScottPalmer-mp1we Guilt by association is an extremely common tactic by the left.

[@Veedon7]

Forty years ago I was called a fascist by my political philosophy professor because I said I believed in an unseen numinous world. My communist uncle called me a fascist because I dared to rebuke him for stealing family property . .And recently I found I was being touted as a fascist because I played an excerpt from Julius Evola's "The Metaphysics of War " to a friend. Its obviously a badge of honour

[@elenatramsti5176]

YOur uncle didn't like being caught doing something he knew was wrong, and your rebuking him destroyed his feelings of righteousness and entitlement. Re the numinous world: I believe humans are hard wired to believe in it since we subconsciously know we are spiritual beings having a human experience here. I have found that people who deny the numinous world do so usually for 3 reasons: they don't like religion - or at least the religion they have been offered, they have been hurt by religious people, or they are living their lives in ways that harm themselves and others.

[@BASED.88]

The Julius Evola one makes the most sense with his background, but that’s the wrong book for that accusation.

[@Kwisatz-Chaderach]

Metaphysics of war is pretty cool.

[@Veedon7]

@@Kwisatz-Chaderach Loved it

[@Kwisatz-Chaderach]

@Veedon7 I got like most of his works that have been translated. Handbook for right-wing youth, Path of Cinnabar, Fascism viewed from the right, Ride the Tiger...etc. all pretty interesting. I don't have the myth of blood though.

[@jimalexander687]

The thing is -- Nazism is not politically right, but left. The rights of individuals and freedom *from* government is politically Right; the dominance of and enslavement *to* government is politically Left. Fascism is authoritarian. To which political ideology is authoritarianism more easily aligned, those who want freedom *from* government, or those want enslavement *to* government? The link of fascism to the Right is due the endless repetition of lies by a Leftist revisionism via their incessant redefinition of words and rewriting of history. As far as more government goes, George Orwell had the perfect description of what Leftist ideology brings in his novel "1984" -- "If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stomping on a human face forever."

[@maryphagansrevenge]

Nazism was both right and left - nationalist externally, socialist internally. This is the only way a state (or a family) can survive. "National Socialism was the temporary expression of cosmic truth." (Savetri Devi)

[@Nyet-Zdyes]

@@maryphagansrevenge Nationalism is neither Right nor Left. Look at USSR, NK, PRC, etc... far Left... but also nationalist. Therefore, not-see-ism is not "both right and left"... but entirely Left. Both Italy and Germany at the time, and their two most infamous leaders, realized that the "class struggle" wasn't going to work... and neither of them *wanted* a class struggle, which would destroy the nations they loved... as had happened in USSR... and (for a time) France during the French Revolution. Instead, not-see-ism was a split within Marxism... between classist/globalist ideas, and nationalist ideas.

[@Lynximus]

Thank you for making clear that you are a historically illiterate simpleton in your first sentence 😂

[@Lynximus]

Holy sh!t you are so clueless it's actually embarrassing, reading a book ffs. Rise and fall of the third Reich or something. How dumb do you have to be to think Nazism or fascism for that matter are left wing ideologies. If you had a shred of historical knowledge or literacy it's pretty obvious they were a reactionary far right right movement. Bloody hell this is more depressing than it is amusing

[@voltron8375]

​@@maryphagansrevenge nationalism isn't right lol. They're lefties like all histories villains

[@Fact-fiend_1000ASMR.]

"My principles are only those that, before the French Revolution, every well-born person considered sane and normal."- Julius Evola

[@SocietalCollapseEnjoyer]

Be radical, be absolute, have principles. Be that which that the bugoiuses call an extremists. Give yourself without counting or calculating. Never accept what they say are the facts of life, act in such a way that that life will never accept you. Never abandon the principle of struggle.

[@Fact-fiend_1000ASMR.]

@@SocietalCollapseEnjoyer Struggle is key. It insures vitality at both a personal and societal level. P.S. Nice pfp. Nieztchean Chad.

[@CMA418]

People only hold to their principles when it’s convenient. For those that have held on to those principles, they simply have not been tested.

[@darthtleilaxu4021]

Je suis d'accord avec cette citation. 🖐️🇨🇵

[@ryanalving3785]

​@@CMA418 You realize that millions of people throughout history have died for matters of principle, right? Doesn't that qualify as the principles being "tested," and held onto anyway?

[@michaelchristman2329]

If everything normal is Fascist, then Fascism is...

[@Eric.1I37]

normal.

[@tbone450r]

Part of the status quo in American politics

[@ryanvenjoyer]

"Then nothing is"

[@snowdog202]

I've always kind of considered myself more rugged individualist. Now despite changing none of my core principles over the last 20 years, have suddenly become a fascist to my family.

[@pdc-cp4uv]

It's time to just own it

[@tubewatcher117]

Sorry to hear that. It's weird how people were so quick to abbandon long standing principles to just jump on the bandwagon of political correctness. Good on you for standing on your principles.

[@pilgrimpits8872]

Every normal person was "fascist" prior to WW2. Blood and soil, love of ones own, wariness of the other is how we are wired. Perfectly healthy.

[@mindsablaze221]

Agreed

[@maynardwayward12]

"blood and soil" is literally a fascist slogan.

[@sabrewolf89]

That's not what fascism is. Thst's nationslism/patriotism. Fascism is rebranded absolutism for the 20th century. Its defing feature is the complete psychological suppression of the individual and perfect loyalty ti the state.

[@gotistgro9167]

exactly, "prior to". In WW2 the world could ultimately witness the horrors this primeval mentality creates. That's why the memento is necessary.

[@NoPlus500]

It ain't healthy

[@laughingcrowe22]

I had a history teacher at a small college in Philadelphia call me fascist because I questioned the history he was re-writing and teaching in class. Why is it fascist to question? I thought that college and university was where you were supposed to question things? To bring about debate? Debate is squashed.

[@TheNonEdibleCheese]

I get called a racist, bigot, sexist, and racist pretty often, all because I support liberty, individual rights, and Individualism; yet there is no minority bigger than the individual.

[@JesusFriedChrist]

No minority _smaller_ than the individual, you mean.

[@Cdawg_6969]

It’s crazy that my ideals were all held by average, everyday conservatives only 20 years ago. And yet I’m a “fascist”

[@Glocktologist]

They still hold the same ideas but are afraid to express them. They rather be actual cowards than to be called fascists without merit.

[@jer3996]

I’m a 3rd generation Marine who lives 30 miles west of Portland Or. I only live here so I can take care of an aging mother and a special needs brother. Nobody gets called a fascist more than me. I want less taxes and more money for my family. That also makes me a racist in these parts.

[@kellyflood9135]

I'm in Lake O. MN native. I feel you! Me too. I hate this city (the Portland area). If I could, I'd move to Eastern Oregon, near the Wallowas Anywhere but PDX.

[@leones87]

Good luck and stay strong!

[@MadScientist81]

Portland is the capital city of wokeness… get out when you can… asap.

[@BASED.88]

As an actual fascist, I get annoyed by everything being called fascist. For example: Libertarians aren’t fascist - they’re fannypack conservatives. I dont want them categorized with me

[@rodderz5615]

😂

[@FreeWorld288]

😂😂😂😂😂

[@rhineman]

They’re totally watering down the meaning of the word. At the same time. You might be glad because if no one knows what it actually is. It might be easier to sneak it back into power.

[@BASED.88]

@@rhineman it’s annoying, but it’s definitely working in my favour. The libertarian/conservative to fascist pipeline is real. The more they harass the normie right, the more my side doesn’t look all that bad.

[@sheepherder911]

@@BASED.88 88 huh? What about 14?

[@PeteNice29]

“Fascist” when used by the left simply means anything that’s traditional. By extension, conservative. And what’s odd is, JFK-era Democrats that actually knew what real fascism looked like would never say that. Why? They practiced social normality much in the same manner conservatives of the time did.

[@xringarcher1440]

Simple as, the people most likely to call you or anything else “fascist” doesn’t understand what fascism actually is

[@SoulSoundMuisc]

Worse, they absolutely refuse to learn the actual definition, as if knowledge will poison them.

[@Samson373]

And why is the right called "far right" five times more often than the left is called "far left"? To get this statistic, I searched Google for the exact phrase "far right" and then for the exact phrase "far left". The phrase "far right" returned 151 million results whereas "far left" returned 30 million results -- and of course 151M is five times more than 30M.

[@atticusherodes6648]

That's also google which has not been a search engine since 2011, so it's going to rig the results like that. And the media has rigged it like that

[@anonymouseovermouse1960]

imo that might be because leftists tend to use "far right" as a slur, whereas rightists tend to use "far left" just as a descriptor/identifier.

[@SerpMolot]

Liberalism is inherently right-wing which would mean they would need to distinguish themselves from the culturally conservative, whom they've labelled "far-right". + It's a smear tactic due to the inherent connotation with the Austrian painter. Cultural conservatism goes against the very nature of a capitalist, liberal economy.

[@OneTheBlue]

I would use the term, "far left" to describe a public figure for whom that term was accurate. I am not aware of any at the moment though. Not in the US anyway.

[@iloled2924]

Because people who use the term “far right” think anything right of center, or right of their own political views are “fascist”. Ask any of them to explain to you the difference between what they consider to be “far right” versus “moderate right”, and all you get is stuttering and a deer in the headlights look.

[@matthewgaulke8094]

I remember as I delved into trying to understand the Woke it basically got to the point that anything that promoted a healthy life was considered white supremacy. My genealogy of ideas that shaped the modern world lead me to becoming Catholic. The Protestant Revolution and Enlightenment ideas probably started off like any other seed, looked good but we are now seeing the fruit these seeds bear. I started to ask what are we trying to conserve as Conservative Christians in America? Well the Protestant mostly just seems to want to only go back to the 1950's and isn't as conservative as they think. They still want to preserve the tree. They think they can cut down all the fruit and the tree won't just eventually grow back the same disgusting fruit. My take is all the good Right Wing thought is already in Catholicism but not all Right Wing thought is consistent with Catholicism and in my belief the Truth.

[@hazchemel]

Yeah, I pretty well agree with your comments. The conformity/ compliance and ovine complacence drives me crazy.

[@Matt_JPearce]

So interesting to read this. Have been exploring a lot of ring wing ideas and have only in the last 2wks gotten to the point of finding how it crosses over with Catholicism. Keen to explore Catholicism and would appreciate your suggestions where to start.

[@c4call]

The truth is in pre-christian religion. Catholicism, and Christianity, Jesus and his own teachings, tend us toward degeneracy and cowardice and weakness.

[@arctain1]

Perhaps looking at it from more of a Platonic perspective might help: Rather than ask “What are we trying to conserve?”, the question is really, “What does it mean to live (or have) a good life?” Then you might ask, what is ‘good’, and why should we apply it to life (or to ‘a life’ or to ‘our life’)? Then you may ask, Are there things so good as to be required, even by use of force? And are there things so evil as to be rejected, even to the point of use of force? Then, perhaps, you will begin to understand that the ‘common good’ is not the highest form of philosophy - which is, at its heart, fascism (and it’s kissing cousin, leftist progressive-socialist thought). Man is too broken as to be trusted to dictate and enforce the ‘common good’ either well or in common. Nor is the ‘individual rights’ the highest form of philosophy - which is, at its heart, anarchist libertarianism. Man is too broken as to not love himself and hate his neighbor in equal measure. And coming thus, you might find that what C.S. Lewis called the Tao neatly fits the bill of what you are looking for to ‘conserve’. And that is no rejoining of church and state (Roman Catholicism), or return to monarchal or socialist ‘benevolent dictatorship’. Instead, a ‘conservation’ that perhaps whatever *IS* wrong with the world is *ME* , might take hold and order the thoughts - and thus, lives - of men. But it starts with asking the question ‘What is a ‘good life’?”

[@Oera-B]

​@@arctain1 Right, but how this applies to politics.

[@MatthewEverhart]

"Why is everything normal called fascist?" Because small minds have nothing else to fall back on in the face of push-back on or divergence from their echo chambers.

[@savvygood]

I like the line that classical republican ideals are being watered down and called fascism.

The Koch brothers destroyed the classical republican. Today the gop is half maga (fascist) and the rest are terrified of maga Cowards and crazies. The corporate Dems are right of center, essentially the modern conservative.. Interestingly, a republic can be fascist. Not all citizens are guaranteed a vote. Look it up

[@iloled2924]

Theres nothing “fascist” about MAGA.

[@iloled2924]

Yeah no, just because someone isnt a commie like Bernie Sanders, who spent his homeymoon in the Soviet Union and was best pals with commie lunatics in Nicaragua and Venezuela, does not make them “right of center”. You can still be in favor of a business friendly capitalist market economy and be left of center. Progressives and Democratic socialists are not left of center, they are left wing and far left.

[@tbone450r]

They are becoming more fascist that’s for sure

[@ryanvenjoyer]

It's fascist for conservatives to slowly side with progressives, they need to abandon their principles much faster.

[@ElfBreeder]

I got called a fascist for wanting to have children. I took the “discord mommy” away from a bunch of leftists (most communist, some trans), married her, and now our son is turning 1 this month.

[@clavengun]

This is incredibly relevant to me here in the UK, in the past couple of days the British public has been labeled far right by its prime minister.

[@bmv9053]

I feel so bad for you guys over there. It’s clear those poor people have had enough, yet their government and their media continue to terrorize and demonize them. Stand strong! Your patriot cousins in the USA are standing by you.

[@spacecorpse3212]

I'm an anarchist and I've been called a fascist

[@nobillismccaw7450]

Indeed! I’m a responsible anarchist but I get called libertarian.

[@mjt1517]

Ah, anarchy. That would last 20 minutes before the first warlord ascended to power.

[@jackrogers5712]

​@@mjt1517no rulers, not no rules

[@opossumlvr1023]

Anarchism is the most far right that you can get. Communism represents total governmental control and is the most far left you can get thus Anarchism the least government control that you can have has to be the most extreme right wing possible. All other ideologies fall some where between these two on the political spectrum.

[@trippcox2641]

Ahh Anarchism, a philosophy too simple for most people to understand 🫶

[@corymarsh]

this type of discourse is sorely lacking in our country today. thanks for posting this content.

[@tzatzikiv812]

I've been called a fascist for teaching my students standard grammar which they need in their exams. It wasn't the students themselves who called me this, it was a random person on the internet who felt offended by the English language and had clearly decided to invent their own rules. 😂🤦🏻‍♀️

[@caonguyenngo8431]

Nazinflation.

[@ikept_the_jethryk2421]

Hope they didn't use hydrogen

[@Jadty]

Oy!

[@sonofabishop4449]

​@@ikept_the_jethryk2421or zyklon b.

[@Arnsteel634]

I can disagree with certain elements of Plato, Nietzche, Heidegger, and any philosopher I have ever read. Some I agree more with than others. But everyone of them I have gained valuable insight.

[@Cindybin46]

I've heard of Plato but never heard of the other two. And I'm a college graduate!

[@Arnsteel634]

@@Cindybin46 you are a college graduate and have never heard of Nietzche and Heidegger?

[@Cindybin46]

@@Arnsteel634 I graduated in the 70s and never took classes that taught about them. Never took classes in high school about that, either.

[@Arnsteel634]

@@Cindybin46 I’m not saying you are stupid or anything like that. It just surprised me

[@ElysiumHouseDE]

Hear hear! I am VERY tired of trying to learn about the philosophy of thinkers like Heidegger and having to sit through the same "I'm perplexed and saddened by his political beliefs" and "He never apologized" preamble. I'm here for the thought, not the holier-than-thou disqualifiers. It is annoying and mundane at best, and I greatly appreciate your message in this video. Keep it up!

[@brandonlemon2060]

I tell my kids, when we talk about post-modern liberal ideals, it's not a matter of hate or phobia, but a matter of not normalizing lifestyle that would destroy the civilization of we all converted. We can all have the same religion, language, values etc. and society would function just fine. We can't all be gay, or on drugs, or antisocial, so don't normalize it.

[@iloled2924]

Very well put. I tolerate some of it to an extent, we are a free country, but i most certainly strongly resist normalizing or even celebrating any of these dysfunctional ideas.

So, conform or be an outcast. Not fascist but definitely intolerant. Read what you want but don't inflict it on me.

[@itssteve6018]

You've got the causation the wrong way around. The culture is in a state of decay because the "meritocracy" has long since been destroyed. And so people resort to hedonism and despair. If you genuinely believe that the current system is based on meritocracy; then you are too brainwashed and part of the very decay. You are a Roman refusing to admit Rome has already fallen.

[@meb280]

Yes, I have a 'which is better' way of looking at it, similar to what you do. Which is better - everyone doing marijuana or no one doing it? Everyone being promiscuous and no one? Everyone being gay or no one? What do the answers to such questions tell us about acceptable vs. not-acceptable behavior?

[@intothevoid3962]

That's a fantastic point

[@Texocracy]

Thank you Michael, for all your sacrifices in your unwavering pursuit of the good and the true.

[@p6v665]

right wing grifters are a dime a dozen, get out of the pipeline while you can

[@egioch]

Liberalism and fascism are two words that completely lost their original meaning nowadays.

[@new-dk6vk]

This might be the best video you've done, you expressed so well many things I think about.

[@scatterbraindevotional1780]

I'm forever grateful to have stumbled on your interview concerning Dugin. Thank you!!!!

[@graazioso]

Weymouth Massachusetts I was told “how does it feel being a Nazi Fascist?” at a red light for having one small trump 2020 bumper sticker back in 2019

[@doughboy_6439]

My reply: "I don't know, how DOES it feel?"

[@kiliandrilltzsch8272]

im sure the Nazis wouldnt vote for trump

[@martinheath5947]

Fascism, by definition, is the integration and fusion of corporate power and The State, not a person with illiberal views we disagree with, but we are not supposed to realise that.

[@NorthernObserver]

If you really examine it, how the DNC has governed since Obama is much closer to fascism than any other political force in America

[@Historia.Magistra.Vitae.]

_"Fascism, by definition, is the integration and fusion of corporate power and The State"_ No. That is the definition of Corporatocracy. Fascism was only about the State and its power.

[@BuJammy]

Fascism is about state power.

[@Willy_Tepes]

Leftists like to define words so it suits their needs. What is a woman anyways?

[@ttthttpd]

No, fascism is the subsuming of ALL cultural entities within the state. That's corps, syndicates, unions, religions, clubs, etc. All become organs of the state, hence the common names Fascism (bound together) and Corportism (like a body).

[@Mr.Ambrose_Dyer_Armitage_Esq.]

I'm Caucasian, wear all black (not Goth), and got a fresh undercut haircut last week. The Hasidic Jew across from me on the train called me this then proceeded to move and tell others in an effort to get me shamed or lynched or whathaveyou when I started laughing at him. I live in Utah; I didn't know we even had Jews.

[@velocirapture89]

Ha, I live in Utah. I see lots of polygs but no Jews. That’s very odd.

[@Mr.Ambrose_Dyer_Armitage_Esq.]

@@velocirapture89 Indeed, lot of Muslims, too. This place is going to shit.

[@DandyWestman]

You were being socially lynched by the antiwhite mob for looking too similar to the archetype of the villain in the antiwhite narrative.

[@Mr.Ambrose_Dyer_Armitage_Esq.]

@@velocirapture89 I know, Salt Lake City's become a cesspool.

[@velocirapture89]

@Mr.Ambrose_Dyer_Armitage_Esq. Oh yeah, that explains it. I f****** hate SLC. I’m in SLC at a restaurant this very moment and can’t wait to GTFO. I live in sunny St George 🌞

[@TheLateBoyScout]

Your “fear of getting back on the horse” analogy is interesting, especially considering that the “anti-fascists” will get back on the Communism horse no matter how many times it bucks them off and tramples them.

[@codylowecommunion]

Great video. Sophistry gets in the way of seeking the Good. Humility is a necessity.

[@mpetersen6]

Calling somebody a facist has pretty much lost its impact as far as l am concerned.

[@p6v665]

that says a lot more about you than the other person...

[@RedPigSpartan]

​@p6v665 Well it's the truth

[@mildly_miffed_man1414]

@@p6v665”everyone I don’t like is a fascist!!!!!”

[@THELORDVODKA]

​@@p6v665Exactly... That the guy is able to see beyond emotional manipulation when people use word "fascism" mindlessly. Actual fascists are so rare that if I challenged you to name 1 from actual times you wouldn't be able to without Google and even there you'd probably get biased wrongful usage of the word results. Let that settle in

[@p6v665]

@@THELORDVODKA LOL. you see what just happened in the uk? all those fash rioting over “”immigration”” think they arent fash… guess how it started out in germany

[@spencermatthews1808]

I was called a Nazi for agreeing with intersectionality and freedom of speech

[@wilfred309]

Neo Liberalism is almost the opposite of Classical Liberalism.

[@cryptoSabbateanFrankistJacobin]

Frankfurt School Cultural Marxism critical theory

[@travelertuber9487]

There's no such thing as "neo" liberalism. This title was created by a german economist, Alexander Rustow whom realized the original big gov planned economic model proposed by socialists was a tremendous failure. So he wanted to create a bridge beetween classic liberalism and Keynesian policies. So basically the so called neo-cons like John Bolton, Bush, D.Chenney and most republicans. But not all the conservatives and righwingers are like that.

[@wilfred309]

@@travelertuber9487 Liar. People use it and knows what it means, therefore it exists.

[@travelertuber9487]

@@wilfred309 No, is the leftie turds that adore trowing it randomly when they ran out of money to keep up their "free equality for all" rethoric when inflation abstracts their useless exesive spending in welfare. THEN, usually they restore afterwards into a dirty crony state capitalism in order to survive, but without reaching an actual free market because they would end up being the hypocrates they are.

[@flyingmonkeydeathsquadronc968]

@@wilfred309 neo liberal cannot exist because classical liberalism and Keynesian policies cannot coexist and what "neo liberals" actually are tend to have too much of an association with genocide for them feel comfortable calling themselves that. You cannot have a free society micromanaged by the state.

[@mustang607]

These days people who are programed to call people fascist tend to be more fascist.

[@MarushiaDark316]

The irony of "fascism = us vs them" is that it's classifying people into an "us vs them" category of "us" vs "the fascists."

[@Majestros]

Am I a fascist for sending my kids to private school which doesn't teach gender ideology?

[@Belenus3080]

I was called a fascist because I said, at a certain point the fetus is a human being. I wasn’t even coming at it from a religious perspective, it’s just plainly observable.

[@eduardohope4909]

As long as anyone uses these terms as rhetorical weapons to attempt to shut others down, one should be equipped with the definition and a couple of choice examples-- that way the rhetorical problem is defused, discussion or debate can drill down on the real problem being contemplated without getting lost in the misunderstanding or misuse of ideas. It's that simple. If then what ensues is a discussion or debate about an idea or concept of easy confirmation, then one knows there is intellectual gaslighting going on and can choose to abandon the situation, no harm no foul. The thing is to be equipped. Ideas don't typically exist in their own bubble; they are usefully mappable on a spectrum of ideas, concepts, attitudes, orientations, and behaviors, and one needs to be familiar with that spectrum, otherwise one is lost in those exchanges.

[@JesusPeopleSF]

Appreciate this vantage point. Some of the ideas you expressed are said on the middle to right, but usually not in a way that places them in the context of the history of thought, so it was refreshing to hear. Thank you.

[@JesusPeopleSF]

Also you have a new subscriber 👍

[@DarkSeraph95]

The most common thing I've heard when defining fascism is "Fascists' are fascist" The people calling everything fascist or everybody nazi don't even know what the terms mean

[@paganofthenorth448]

It’s simple: the one time ZOG was actually threatened, it was by fascists.

[@TheTrippnotist]

When you say ‘liberalism’, do you mean modern ‘progressivism’ or classical liberalism? Because the former is anti-liberal by the standards of the latter, and the latter ‘far right’ apparently by the judgement of the former.

[@omegatafkal]

I'd call myself a monarchist, not a liberal.

[@alexstevensen4292]

I have the same beef with the use of the word 'liberal' as if there isn't enough political confusion already. "great thing the destruction of words". often it's not clear which they mean and they seem to be lumped together a mix of free market and the ideals of the american democratic party. Western politics: it's all 'liberalism' (apparently)

[@bb5242]

classic liberalism is pretty dead--if you ask someone what a liberal is, they point at a progressive if not some far-left whack job

[@loftgroover9271]

Fantastic channel, so happy I found it. So refreshing to hear some logical criticital thinking

[@stariswartorn]

My mothers family are non-Jews from the Netherlands who survived the European holocaust. Among them was a girl with Downs syndrome. They had to hide her in a wooden chest and bribe her to remain silent, or she wouldve been sent away to be deleted. They had to butcher and eat the family dog to survive. My 17 year old aunt was 5'11 and weighed 70 pounds at the end of the occupation. Some of the other stories the older folks told filled me with horror and disgust so much that I cant even mention them. For people to throw around the words "nazi" and "fascist" in todays world is absolutely infuriating to me. To call somebody those things as a casual insult when they obviously are not should be a hate crime as far as im concerned. Leftist activists will not be able to live in the world they are trying to create and a small, selfish part of me almost hopes theyre successful so I can watch their suffering and downfall. The inability of people to realize how good they have it in modern America guarantees that they will lose everything. Heed my words.

[@ma-moomoo]

Anyone else find the way he used the word "liberalism" confusing? Because liberalism is an ideology that prioritises freedom in expression and in markets

[@abbottshaull9831]

For supposedly loving the freedom of expression, they sure seem to censor anyone who doesn't line up behind their limit view of narrative that they support.

[@AlexDomain1]

Anyone happen to see the image of Nayib Armando Bukele the president of El Salvador @08:06? 😅 Subtle subliminal messaging

[@qc6057]

I’ve been called that before for rejecting a girl when I was in a relationship. I was also misogynist, despite dating a woman.

[@dennisshannon8480]

Very interesting. The first question I have, is whose definition of liberalism are we using? John Locke’s classical liberalism, or the far less liberal statist “liberalism” most people have associated with with the term “Liberalism” since the 1930s? The former is about as pure as liberalism can be, where the latter is dictated by state control. It’s more of a “ you’re as free as you want to be… until you want to be more free than we wish to allow.”. These Ideas of “Left” & “Right” are totally meaningless! There’s liberalism, which is rooted in individual rights & freedom, and there is illiberalism, which is rooted in collective interests & control. But I suppose I’m now a fascist, because now I’m talking about definitions, which are inherently absolutist….

[@bb5242]

I basically don't want "China" whatever that is

[@angelmessenger8240]

Short answer, it's the latest buzzword to make people shut up and comply.

[@WiseOwl_1408]

Orwell wrote a short essay on the topic. His conclusion was it's a buzzword.

[@p6v665]

this video was made to make you shut up and comply. maybe actually read or watch an analysis from a leftist on why they are saying that instead of listening to a right wing regurgitation on why they want you to believe leftists are calling you a fascist.

[@p6v665]

@@WiseOwl_1408 orwell was a socialist who fought against fascists in the spain civil war. its honestly so funny how right wingers bastardize someone so blatantly against them

[@CR055FIRE]

because small moustache man was right about many things people don't want to believe a human can be both just, and unjust, at the same time; that would mean small moustache mans psychology could be completely normal - which scares people

[@watk0084]

Thank you, Michael! An excellent exhortation to seek wisdom, wherever it may be found.

[@fromthe90s21]

I said I didn't like kebab, I was called a racist.

[@dr.emilschaffhausen4683]

" I don't know Jill, I don't think that feces on canvas is considered art." "Fascist!"

[@HockeyDad6631]

I was called a racist because I didn't know who a black NBA player was. I don't watch ANY sports, I can't name any white players either.

[@kenl.6340]

The answer is quite simple... If nobody can properly define fascism then no one will be able to identify it when it arrives

[@numarkaz]

This is such an important topic. I hope this video goes viral and other people continue this discussion.

[@vandalcreed]

Orwell's article "what is Fascism? " is still relevant even today. It's just a slur and everyone ignores the founding philosopher Gentile when trying to determine what Fascism is despite it being spelt out on his works

[@joeandre8100]

PHENOMENAL VIDEO!! 👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾 This has not only helped me but has intrigued me to begin a study of schools of thought. Thanks!!

[@saureco]

Once Europeans stop caring about being called names, that's when the enemy will have to reposition and reevaluate. The pushback is upon us, and the enemy will call every response to their campaign as unfair. Too bad.

[@zenden6564]

Very succinct... I like this short form format: to make your point, thankyou Michael. ❤

[@crbondur]

I was confused at first about how Millerman used the term "liberal". I think we need to clarify, in the video when Millerman says "liberal" and "liberalism" it seems he's referring to the center-left of the modern political spectrum, with Leftists being the far-left of the political spectrum. (This is based on his statements around the 3:40 mark.) After all, 'liberal' thoughts and ideas are actually the foundation of the US, and include the ideas of individual freedoms, rights, and liberties, ideas that "liberals" have labeled as "fascist" and "far right".

[@bb5242]

It was liberal because it supported individuality and rejected monarchism and all that familial precedence

[@brunoqueiroz2759]

no, he is against classical liberalism too

[@TheSpicyLeg]

Earlier this year, I was speaking to a couple who are friends from when my wife and I lived near them. My wife and I had gone to clean up a house of a family member of my wife’s who had passed, so we didn’t have our kids with us. Over dinner, we asked how their two kids were doing in school, and the couple started mentioning things like all these weird rewards, like getting a reward for being the happiest that day, or asking another kid what their pronouns were. I was trying to remain polite, so I didn’t speak my mind. When they asked about our kids, I mentioned academics. For example, my oldest daughter is graduating next year at 16. She is an excellent student, but she also goes to a private Christian school where the academic demands are more challenging. There is a dress code, uniforms, Bible study, the whole nine yards. My friends appeared baffled by the very idea that there were schools without the leftist programming and obsession with identity/self-esteem. “Fascism” is bandied about because it is one of the few things that government schools actually teach, and therefore has become the only historical ruler by which people judge philosophy, politics, religion, and belief. It is the biggest of the bad, and everything is either fascism, or not. Nuance and objectivity are not taught in school. I always like to say that we should pray the world never discovers that mustache man was a huge proponent of vegetarianism, or the poor vegans and vegetarians are going to find themselves with an unhappy label applied to them.

[@berserker4940]

Your assessment of humanity's attitude toward right wing anti liberalism and especially liberal's defensive attitude toward it is excessively generous.

[@Epiclips-y5m]

We've literally reached the point where the word 'facists" has lost meaning .. soon it won't matter if you call someone fascist, and this gives the real fascist the opportunity to grow with mass support...😢

[@mchammer5592]

Plot twist: most people who call people fascist have no idea what that word means.

[@jbird976]

Always accuse your opponent of what you are doing

[@W1dg3]

A beautiful video. You speak with such clarity while conveying a deeply important and complex message

[@millerman]

Thank you

[@pongthrob]

It took me a minute to realize you said Plato and not a playdough.

[@EnvelopingSuspensions]

Playdoh

[@mediabear]

Traditionalism > modernity

[@OneTheBlue]

Interesting concept. How are you defining these terms though?

[@itssteve6018]

Monarchy is traditional. Meaning you worship an arbitrary god king.

[@Webedunn]

@@itssteve6018yeah but democracy goes back to Ancient Greece. I’m pretty sure they mean civilized society

[@p6v665]

this is the basic tenet of fascism. good job!

[@p6v665]

@@Webedunn the roman empire was used by mussolini to justify his dictatorship, and used many of its traditional motifs (such as the fasces), just as christian nationalists are doing today

[@pavel0900]

Phenomenal summery of many things that are wrong today and why. Great video, thank you! 👍🏻

[@karinbarton1240]

Excellent! The 2024 update to George Orwell’s 1944 “What is Fascism?”

[@ftdefiance1]

George Orwell's Essa "What is Fascism " hits the nail on the head. Everything I don't like is Fascism.

[@uilleamp9511]

Brilliant and complete analysis. Sums up very well my own thoughts after years of studying and reflecting on this topic.