Planetguy wrote:...Mordgeld wrote:These days, words like racist, bigot, and fascist are being used to mean "waaah, shut up, I hate you".
People don't consider trump a "racist, bigot, and fascist" BECAUSE they hate him..... they hate him BECAUSE they consider him a "racist, bigot, and fascist"....
I'm not arguing that. I'm simply saying that many people have lost a grip on what these words mean. Some examples:
[*] Muslim is not a race.
[*] Shouting down those with other opinions is the very definition of bigotry.
[*] Fascism is a authoritarian political system. Republicans don't (shouldn't) want more government or more regulations. "Because a fascist in the past did something then someone doing that now is a fascist"... is false logic. If Mussolini ate breakfast, that does not mean that eating breakfast is now fascist. Here's a handy article: https://medium.com/@Charlie_Wilson/fascism-is-a-left-wing-ideology-867602bf1154