Kimmelstein kicks the gormy ***'s head in. AGAIN

"Dan Kimmel" <daniel.kimmel@xxxxxxx> wrote in message news:4oadnckIb_zcX93anZ2dnUVZ_gadnZ2d@xxxxxxxxxx

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On 18-Nov-2007, real-not-anti-spam-address@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (D.M.
Procida)
wrote:

> Steve Goldfarb <slg@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > If you define Fascist to only refer to certain early-to-mid 20th
century
> > European states, then you're correct, and some people do indeed > > define
> > it
> > that narrowly. However, as Safire says...
> >
> > "Fascism is not so much taken to be a left or right political
ideology;
> > rather, it has become a word defining hate-based practices employed > > by
> > a totalitarian regime or movement - bundling such punishing > > birch-whip
> > words as 'dictatorial,' 'bigoted,' 'jack-booted', 'racist,' 'sexist,'
> > 'power-famished.'"
>
> To me that's to say a formerly useful word which identified a > particular
> state-centered political philosophy, and a particular construction of
> the body politic, has been used so carelessly that now it's little more
> than the political equivalent of "yuck".

Which is why those of us who say "Islamofascist" have chosen it with care,
&
made sure it fit.

It's why you tell yourselves that, and you may even believe it, but it's
most certainly not true.

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