20-07-2008, 18:03
Bei "Planet Baha`i" läuft gerade eine interessante Diskussion darüber, ob sich das System der USA nicht langsam dem Faschismus zuwendet. Hier hat ein User einen interessanten Beitrag zur Wortbedeutung eingestellt, den ich Euch - leider in Englisch - nicht vorenthalten möchte:
"I believe your premise is false and highly suspect due to your use of a vile word that has no basis. Hate derived from political partisanship is, by its nature, short sighted and always used to spread fear. I find it sad that you can not see this for what it is and just leave it.
Everyone knows that Germany's particular form of fascism was RACE based and has no connection to what is happening here in the USA in 2008. The very idea that we are fascist in any way is only a slur of a completely miss used and miss understood word.
The word fascist has become a slur throughout the political spectrum followiGrng World War II, and it has been uncommon for political groups to call themselves fascist. Scholar Richard Griffiths asserted in 2005 that the term fascism is the "most misused, and over-used word of our times".[36] In contemporary political discourse, adherents of some political ideologies tend to associate fascism with their enemies, or define it as the opposite of their own views. In the strict sense of the word, Fascism covers movements before WWII, and later movements who some claim have a vague connection to the original form are described as neo-fascist. Some have argued that the term fascist has become hopelessly vague over the years and that it has become little more than a pejorative epithet, for example socialist George Orwell wrote in 1944;
The word ‘Fascism’ is almost entirely meaningless. In conversation, of course, it is used even more wildly than in print. I have heard it applied to farmers, shopkeepers, Social Credit, corporal punishment, fox-hunting, bull-fighting, the 1922 Committee, the 1941 Committee, Kipling, Gandhi, Chiang Kai-Shek, homosexuality, Priestley's broadcasts, Youth Hostels, astrology, women, dogs and I do not know what else... almost any English person would accept ‘bully’ as a synonym for ‘Fascist’. — George Orwell, What is Fascism?. 1944."
"I believe your premise is false and highly suspect due to your use of a vile word that has no basis. Hate derived from political partisanship is, by its nature, short sighted and always used to spread fear. I find it sad that you can not see this for what it is and just leave it.
Everyone knows that Germany's particular form of fascism was RACE based and has no connection to what is happening here in the USA in 2008. The very idea that we are fascist in any way is only a slur of a completely miss used and miss understood word.
The word fascist has become a slur throughout the political spectrum followiGrng World War II, and it has been uncommon for political groups to call themselves fascist. Scholar Richard Griffiths asserted in 2005 that the term fascism is the "most misused, and over-used word of our times".[36] In contemporary political discourse, adherents of some political ideologies tend to associate fascism with their enemies, or define it as the opposite of their own views. In the strict sense of the word, Fascism covers movements before WWII, and later movements who some claim have a vague connection to the original form are described as neo-fascist. Some have argued that the term fascist has become hopelessly vague over the years and that it has become little more than a pejorative epithet, for example socialist George Orwell wrote in 1944;
The word ‘Fascism’ is almost entirely meaningless. In conversation, of course, it is used even more wildly than in print. I have heard it applied to farmers, shopkeepers, Social Credit, corporal punishment, fox-hunting, bull-fighting, the 1922 Committee, the 1941 Committee, Kipling, Gandhi, Chiang Kai-Shek, homosexuality, Priestley's broadcasts, Youth Hostels, astrology, women, dogs and I do not know what else... almost any English person would accept ‘bully’ as a synonym for ‘Fascist’. — George Orwell, What is Fascism?. 1944."