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Re:The Triumph of Philanthropy (2018) by rurban on Thursday April 04, 2024 @01:36AM (#39926910)
For starters replace every instance of Philanthropist by Fascist. Esp. on Wikipedia. Here they are just called white supremacists, which is not enough.
Re:The Triumph of Philanthropy (2018) by dkh on Thursday April 04, 2024 @03:08AM (#39927408)
This is quite reductionist, inaccurate, and unhelpful.

Certainly there are conservatives who aren't fascists, philanthropists who aren't conservatives, philanthropists who aren't pure evil, etc.

If you want to take a complex, nuanced subject and paint it all one ugly color for yourself, have at it, but please don't attempt to do it for the rest of us

Re:The Triumph of Philanthropy (2018) by clarity20 on Thursday April 04, 2024 @04:48AM (#39927980)
"Fascist" began as a neutral description of political-financial relationships and was later made into a household slur by the Soviets to take the heat off after people started likening them to Nazis thanks to their short-lived military alliance, their shared "-ism word", and their common interest in techniques of political oppression (search term: "Gestapo–NKVD conferences"). In this context, there is no logical connection to philanthropy much less to "white supremacy", a term that's almost always used monomaniacally.