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1. Kednic+q5[view] [source] 2020-06-06 22:02:09
>>dredmo+(OP)
What can we do, as a community, to limit the spread of fascism? It seems that it's quite a problem.
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2. JKCalh+s6[view] [source] 2020-06-06 22:09:49
>>Kednic+q5
As a start:

Education.

People need to believe justice is applied equally: white as well as black, rich as well as poor.

Close the extreme and growing wealth gap in the country.

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3. Barrin+W6[view] [source] 2020-06-06 22:14:50
>>JKCalh+s6
I'm always confused by the suggestion that education is some sort of panacea for totalitarian ideology.

Someone who is racist or fascist by definition rejects the notion that justice ought to be applied equally and just about anything else that you would likely consider moral or proper.

And fascism also is not a function of wealth inequality. Fascism has historically grown out of the middle-class. Seymour Martin Lipset identified fascism as "Extremismus der Mitte" in Germany. It's well at home in the petite bourgeoisie or in the US I guess you'd say the suburban middle class.

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4. x86_64+Z7[view] [source] 2020-06-06 22:21:06
>>Barrin+W6
People like throwing education out there because it's less politically charged than anything meaningful.
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5. JKCalh+Id[view] [source] 2020-06-06 23:06:53
>>x86_64+Z7
Not really.

I see fear behind most of the worst behavior in our modern politics. Education goes a long way to address fear.

Want politically charged? I suspect the reason the U.S. has its current president is due in part to a emasculated voting class lashing out from feelings of powerlessness. Education would have gone a long way to making them feel more relevant in a constantly changing economy/society.

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