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From: jim@ISM780B.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.politics
Subject: Re: Orphaned Response
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Date: Thu, 12-Dec-85 17:10:00 EST
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>/* Written  1:19 pm  Dec  9, 1985 by whuts@teddy in ISM780B:net.politics */
>/* ---------- "Re: You ain't Done Nothin' if You ai" ---------- */
>In article <850@mmintl.UUCP> franka@mmintl.UUCP (Frank Adams) writes:
>>The only problem with this article is that it assumes the U.S. to be way
>>over on the right hand side of the political spectrum.  There is another
>>insult (besides calling one's opponent a Communist) which has been used
>>almost as often in this country, at least in the last 40 years.  That is
>>to call one's opponent a Fascist.
>
>This brings up an interesting point.  Sure I've heard "fascist" used as an
>epithet in this country, but primarily by fringe radicals.
>
>I HAVE NEVER HEARD A MAINSTREAM POLITICIAN CRITICIZE ANYONE FOR BEING A FASCIST.
>
>I HAVE HEARD MANY POLITICIANS USE THE WORDS "COMMUNIST" AND "MARXIST" AS
>NEGATIVE EPITHETS.
>
>Can someone provide a counter example (in the past 20 years?).

In one of my calmer moments I once told a guy pushing laser weapons at the
airport that Lyndon LaRouche was a piece of dogshit and he called me a
fascist.  I thought that was kind of funny and felt lucky he didn't pull a
gun on me.

In this country fascists like Franco and Klaus Barbie are cool;
it is the "premature anti-fascists" who got called up before HUAC.

-- Jim Balter (ima!jim)