With the precipitous decline of democracy in the United States, it is all too easy to ignore that Canada’s democracy is in decline as well. We ignore the signs at our peril.
While you are correct, I kinda hate this argument because it ascribes equal blame on both sides as if giving up on human rights is a reasonable political position. The better way to describe it is that the Nazis are too comfortable taking their masks off
Does it ascribe blame that way? I don’t think saying “You’re too extreme in your views” necessarily means “You think people shouldn’t have to suffer” and equating them is ultimately going to lead to the exact polarization the commenter is talking about.
You don’t defeat fascism by becoming a “good” fascist.
That would only hold water if the left and the right were equally represented in the Western world. The Overton window currently sits somewhere odd Zohran Mamdani and literal Nazis. Other than odd fringe groups with less political sway than a groundhog in spring, there’s nothing approaching left wing fascism in the Western world.
While you are correct, I kinda hate this argument because it ascribes equal blame on both sides as if giving up on human rights is a reasonable political position. The better way to describe it is that the Nazis are too comfortable taking their masks off
Does it ascribe blame that way? I don’t think saying “You’re too extreme in your views” necessarily means “You think people shouldn’t have to suffer” and equating them is ultimately going to lead to the exact polarization the commenter is talking about.
You don’t defeat fascism by becoming a “good” fascist.
That would only hold water if the left and the right were equally represented in the Western world. The Overton window currently sits somewhere odd Zohran Mamdani and literal Nazis. Other than odd fringe groups with less political sway than a groundhog in spring, there’s nothing approaching left wing fascism in the Western world.