[lbo-talk] "Hitler 'a Babe in Arms' Compared to Bush" - Hugo Chavez

Doug Henwood dhenwood at panix.com
Wed Feb 15 07:48:03 PST 2006


Leigh Meyers wrote:


>I suggest everyone take a tip from Hugo and use the 'F' word regularly.
>Because you CAN... While you still have the right to use the word...

And if you don't care about sounding stupid.

Using "fascist" like this is ludicrous. Is the Bush era any more repressive than the era of the Palmer Raids or the Red Scares? The roundup of the Japanese? The Jim Crow south, when the Klan worked in league with the cops? There's more opposition now, elite and popular, than there ever was in those earlier eras. If the regime really were fascist, your email would be censored, and you might even be locked up.

Doug



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