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Cryptofascist - broken

 
 
Cat Chant
16:58 / 07.11.01
Can't reply in the Cryptofascist - what the hell is it? thread, so I'm just saying this quickly here:

I must learn not to use the term 'cryptofascist' on the internet/around people who don't know me well enough to find my citizen smith pose endearing. Or at least be used to it.

Thanks for the definitions, everyone.
 
 
Nick's Experimental Wrongness
17:30 / 07.11.01
It's not that it's not endearing, it's just that I don't know what it means...

Still, since the suggestion is knocking around that Harry Potter is inherently reactionary, one wants a clear idea.
 
 
Cat Chant
23:48 / 07.11.01
It means I don't like it.

More seriously, it means I have problems with something on a political level and can't be bothered to explain why. Shorthand.

It also means that I read so much Walter Benjamin that I've become convinced that fascism is a clear and present danger to the world order, and manifests itself not only in political programs but in, for example, the "contemplative" approach to artworks (cf The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction). And Harry Potter.
 
 
Bill Posters
15:30 / 11.11.01
Would it be fair to say that while of course all words can be used loosely, "cryptofacist" is one that can be applied to almost anything whatsoever due to the fact that the facism is supposedly hidden? It's like the conspiracy theory logic which dictates that the less evidence there is for a conspiracy, the more there is, because its obvious that They are trying to bury it. If that makes any sense. The word "facism" is flexible enough, but once the "crypto" is invoked, then my cat is a cryptofacist.
 
 
Not Here Still
19:42 / 11.11.01
How dare you try and stifle debate!

You... you.. cryptofacist!
 
 
Bill Posters
22:43 / 11.11.01
Precisely!
 
 
Cat Chant
10:38 / 12.11.01
Well... I'd prefer to think of the 'crypto' as meaning 'encoded', rather than 'hidden'. There's still a conspiracy-theory problem, obviously, since I can claim that your cat's scratching patterns are a feline encoding of a swastika (or whatever), but at least I have to attempt to read the patterns and interpret them in a plausible way.
 
 
Bill Posters
13:20 / 12.11.01
Yes, I'm inclined 2 agree with that.
 
  
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