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| Subject: The Joy of Fascism: The Far Right Doesn't Want to Beat the Left; It Wants to Exterminate It Fri Apr 19, 2019 1:33 am | |
| Every right-wing authoritarian movement has one thing in common: a brutal clampdown on any persons or groups who promote equality.
https://psmag.com/ideas/the-far-right-doesnt-want-to-beat-the-left-it-wants-to-eliminate-it
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Right-wing pundits have joked about murdering people on the left for years. In the 1990s, talk-radio host Rush Limbaugh quipped, "I tell people: 'Don't kill all the liberals. Leave enough so we can have two on every campus—living fossils—so we will never forget what these people stood for.'" His words were echoed recently by the neo-Nazi Chris Cantwell, who ranted in a Gab post that leftists should face "complete and total destruction." Memes and jokes about "free helicopter rides" for leftists like Bernie Sanders have become common on the right as well. This is a reference to Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet, who murdered some of his left-wing opponents by throwing them from helicopters. |
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