• Ech@lemm.ee
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      10 days ago

      Affiliating in this case means “tolerating being around”. It doesn’t really have anything to do with becoming or being fascist.

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      10 days ago

      They’re talking about ‘affiliating with’ too. The plain truth is that people who aren’t fascists themselves still enable fascism. (Yes, I know, the whole “1 fascist sitting at a table of 10 is just 10 fascists” line is a great slogan, but at the end of the day, there’s no point wasting time flaming someone by calling them a fascist when they don’t think they are one, it’s semantics, the critical point is they’re a fascist-enabler regardless and therefore responsible for and complicit in fascism)

      • ZombiFrancis@sh.itjust.works
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        10 days ago

        There are people who consider themselves ‘not a fascist’ that also consider the Nuremburg Trials inhumane for having executed unrepentant Nazis. The line is intentionally blurred.