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[–] DomeGuy@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago

You're using words as if English were an immutable language, which it isn't.

Yes, FDR was president of a very racist country and Jefferson owned slaves. But neither one pointed to a minority, thought "I can scapegoat them", and then used violence and terror to break the political system and commit genocide.

No one can stop you from using 'facism" as a label for what I might call eurocentric globalism, but if you do so please do not expect anyone to react as if you were talking about genocidal bigotry.

Especially when we have actual genocidal bigots more than happy for you to dilute their second-most infamous label.