Fascism as a Secular Satan ｜ 10⧸2⧸25
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Summary
The post-Enlightenment West sees itself as a thoroughly secular and modern society. Sophisticated and progressive people have no time for silly superstitions or religious myths. But reality is a stubborn thing, and even if modern man believes that he has transcended the need for religious archetypes, they re deeply baked into the nature of the world that they reemerge in different ways. Instead of discarding concepts like evil or the devil, the West has reconstituted a secular version in the person of Adolf Hitler and the ideology of fascism.
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The post-Enlightenment West sees itself as a thoroughly secular and modern society.
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Sophisticated and progressive people have no time for silly superstitions or religious myths.
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But reality is a stubborn thing, and even if modern man believes that he has transcended the need for religious archetypes,
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they're so deeply baked into the nature of the world that they re-emerge in different ways.
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Instead of discarding concepts like evil or the devil,
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the West has reconstituted a secular version in the person of Adolf Hitler and the ideology of fascism.
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One does not debate with the devil, one slays the devil, and the same is true of fascists.
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This is why the left is now calling basic conservative ideas fascist,
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because they're laying out the justification for political violence.
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Would you travel back in time and kill baby Hitler?
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This is one of the most common ethical questions that gets thrown around in discussions today.
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Juxtaposing the innocence of an infant with the atrocities that could be prevented by an act that is immoral in any other context.
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The murder of a child would normally be horrific,
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but if it's a baby Hitler, a secular Satan who stands as our personification of evil,
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For many, the answer to this hypothetical is an enthusiastic yes,
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because they see Hitler as so evil he stops being human,
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In 2017, the white nationalist Richard Spencer was punched in the face while giving an interview.
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Spencer was not committing acts of violence or threatening anyone,
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he was just simply sharing his views and exercising his right to speak.
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and this began a dialogue around whether it was justified to punch a Nazi in the face.
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The Supreme Court has, of course, made it clear that free speech extends to the rights of people like the KKK
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to march in a Jewish neighborhood, even if it's full of Holocaust survivors.
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But the majority of leftists ultimately agreed that it was justifiable for individuals to do violence
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Now that the moral justification for political violence had been established,
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the only thing left to do was to label every conservative belief fascist.
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The politically correct speech codes imposed by progressives have long served as secular blasphemy laws.
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Charges like bigot, racist, homophobe, Islamophobe, and transphobe
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all technically have different definitions, but they all mean the same thing.
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At one time, these charges could have easily ruined an individual's life,
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but as the left applied them to a wider set of basic conservative beliefs,
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Now, progressives didn't change their strategy or anything.
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They didn't rethink the effectiveness of morality of how they were going about this.
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Instead, they just started to increase the intensity of their rhetoric during the Trump era
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by deploying the term white supremacist in response to conservatives
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who held radical beliefs like ending illegal immigration
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or stopping the surgical mutilation of children.
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and so their only option was to deploy fascists as their final word of power.
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the United States derives whatever moral authority it has
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from defeating Adolf Hitler and the Nazis in World War II.
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though arguably no more evil than the man we joined forces with to defeat him,
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In either case, it's certainly good that the Nazis were defeated and Hitler was stopped,
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but this event has taken on a near-biblical quality for the left.
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As the historian and political theorist Paul Gottfried has explained,
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anti-fascism became the religious ideology of the West after World War II.
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Every leader that America opposes from Saddam Hussein to Vladimir Putin is compared to Hitler.
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The idea of celebrating tradition or heritage became blasphemy.
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the strong gods had to be banished for the fear that they might once again stir the passions of men.
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and so it was the job of every institution and individual citizen
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to remain vigilant and report the enemies of humanity.
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fascism was a discreet political ideology centered mostly in Italy in the 1920s and 30s.
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Extending the term even to the National Socialists of Germany muddies the true definition.
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Fascism is a historical phenomenon that is as dead as the people who practiced it.
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The ideology is not some eternal enemy of mankind waiting in the shadows to reemerge.
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It's as relevant to the modern day as anarcho-syndicalism or the diggers of the English Civil War.
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It's become fashionable among many on the internet left to refer to conservatives as ontologically evil.
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Most of them have no clue what that means, of course,
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but they do know that it allows them to treat their opponents as subhuman.
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If one is ontologically evil, it means that evil is a fundamental part of their way of being in the world.
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Evil is not a choice that they made that can be somehow reversed or atoned for.
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It's the fundamental basis of their very existence.
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There is no reasoning with or debating with someone who is ontologically evil
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for the same reason that there's no reasoning with a man-eating shark.
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and your only option is to stop it by killing it.
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News anchors, left-wing commentators, and Democrat politicians
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now regularly call Donald Trump and his followers fascists.
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Even former President Joe Biden called half the country semi-fascist.
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The bullets fired at Charlie Kirk bore several anti-fascist slogans,
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and many mainstream leftist commentators continue to call him a fascist even in death.
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Charlie Kirk's views on family and Christianity are called fascists,
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the same views that are held by tens of millions of Americans.
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California Governor Gavin Newsom has repeatedly called White House staffer Stephen Miller fascist
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That's what leftists mean when they say fascist.
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The left has established a framework in which it's not just morally justifiable,
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They have trained and funded entire networks of Antifa activists as foot soldiers to carry out
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They've defined the most benign conservative opinions as fascist.
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When progressives apply the label of fascist, they know exactly what they're doing.
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It's critical that in America we come to regard baseless charges of fascism in the same way
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that we regard someone calling for the lynching of a black man.
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It should be seen as reprehensible, disgusting, unacceptable,
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something that removes you from polite society,
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something that keeps you from getting gainful employment,
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something that makes everyone want to keep you at arm's length.
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The left is not killing people because those people are really fascists
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They're calling these people fascists so they can kill them,
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