Disclaimer: This image has been photoshopped. Beyond their desire to have the state control your speech
(and thoughts?) and the fact that Richard Warman has posted supportive comments to a Nazi website, under an assumed identity, there is no real evidence, yet available, that Warren
Kinsella and Richard Warman are Nazis or Nazi supporters.
...and I did not hesitate, in either case, to alert my readers to
instances where expressing bona fide points of view (on immigration, on
anti-taxation movements, on gay rights, on the Holocaust, on free
speech, on what have you) inadvertently gave encouragement to the
forces of organized racism. That neo-Nazis will disproportionately
benefit from the elimination of reasonable limitations on expression
is, I acknowledge, no basis for clamping down on all expression. But
the haters will benefit - and that, I submit, is a consequence that always
needs to be considered. It is therefore fair and appropriate to draw
people's attention to the fact that neo-Nazis and white supremacists
are deliriously happy about Keith Martin's proposal, to me. "Rubbing
people's noses in the reality of hate," I wrote in Web of Hate, is
sometimes necessary. I know lots of good people get upset by that - but
that ostrich-like tendency is the problem, here: too many folks in the
blogosphere are forming opinions on hate propaganda, on violent
pornography and other hateful expression, in the abstract... - Warren Kinsella
Shorter: You're not allowed to speak your mind on things like immigration, anti-taxation, homosexuality and even free speech itself, lest it create an environment where others begin to speak their own minds and even form, their own opinions, as a result.
1921, from It. partito nazionale fascista, the anti-communist political movement organized 1919 under Benito Mussolini (1883-1945); from It. fascio "group, association," lit. "bundle." Fasci
"groups of men organized for political purposes" had been a feature of
Sicily since c.1895; the 20c. sense probably infl. by the Roman fasces (q.v.) which became the party symbol. Fascism, also 1921, was originally used in Eng. 1920 in its It. form, fascismo. Applied to similar groups in Germany from 1923.
"A
form of political behavior marked by obsessive preoccupation with
community decline, humiliation or victimhood and by compensatory cults
of unity, energy and purity, in which a mass-based party of committed
nationalist militants, working in uneasy but effective collaboration
with traditional elites, abandons democratic liberties and pursues with
redemptive violence and without ethical or legal restraints goals of
internal cleansing and external expansion." [Robert O. Paxton, "The
Anatomy of Fascism," 2004]
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