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  • That’s actually a huge problem I’ve had with a right winger.

    Even though he was relatively reasonable, we got stuck because we could not agree on what fascism means.

    I was good to use a dictionary or better yet Wikipedia. He said it can only mean what Mussolini meant when he came up with the term.

    What was annoying is that all I wanted to do was say, group X does Y things, Y things are fascism and fascism is bad.

    It’s just mental gymnastics because it doesn’t matter what we call it, group X is still doing bad things, but instead we got stuck on details.

    Imo this is pretty much all right wing’s only play, dismantle the tools of logic so the conversation doesn’t even happen in the first place.