(ELI5) what actually is a facist
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In the 90s, there was a lot of discussion about the negative impact of pornography on American society. One politician, when pressed to define what is pornography (given the obvious infringement on first amendment rights from a broad ban on pornography), said “I know it when I see it.”
Fascism is likely to have a similar undefinable definition. Most broadly, I’d venture that a fascist is someone who forces someone else to do something for their own purposes. But it’s also implicitly bound up with other qualities that are not exclusive to fascism, such as power, willingness to cause bodily harm, nationalist symbolism, disdain of heterogeneity… etc.
However, you might be seeing fascists everywhere if you thought fascists simply forced others to do things for them.
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