Re:The Triumph of Philanthropy (2018)
by rurban on Thursday April 04, 2024 @01:36AM
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For starters replace every instance of Philanthropist by Fascist. Esp. on Wikipedia. Here they are just called white supremacists, which is not enough.
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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
"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.