Ron DeSantis' announces Stop Woke Act that allows Florida parents to sue if systemic racism is taught

[Gyrofrog]

@Skeptic

I think most Americans can’t define the word - and neither can I, because it does have some different definitions.

Summing it up as “anti-Enlightenment” is, at least, succinct.

De-bullshitifying the libertopian Legend of Malheur National Wildlife Refuge

Don’t forget the racism and misogyny. It ain’t just greed that’s obnoxious about those wankers. Years and years ago, I had a job where someone had left an almanac in the break room. It briefly defined a number of political philosophies. For the term “fascism,” it said the term was hard to define* but that it was generally a rejection of everything that we thought up during (and after?) the Enlightenment. *(Perhaps because it’s so widely used as a synonym for politics with which one disagr…

Sayeth Orwell:

Many political words are similarly abused. The word Fascism has now no meaning except in so far as it signifies “something not desirable.”

Of course, in spite of the guy taking a bullet through his throat for literally being anti-fascist, more than once I’ve heard “if Orwell were alive today he’d be a Republican.”