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Re: True Right Wing Fascists
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lugnet.off-topic.debate
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Wed, 19 Jan 2000 16:37:15 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Dave Schuler writes:
> Scott:
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> In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Scott Edward Sanburn writes:
> > I think it is funny, though, that extremists that are portrayed in the
> > media and other avenues of life seem to be right wing, and those
> > extremists on the left (Including *some* environmentalists, animal
> > rights, etc. are seen as caring, or deeply committed.) I have never
> > heard, in any of the standard media, environmentalists being called
> > extremists. It is a bias, that is uncalled for.
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> True enough--I hadn't thought of that before. I've heard environmentalists
> referred to as "radical" or "fringe" before, but those words seem somehow to
> have a different resonance...
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> Dave!
I've heard and read "Environmental Extremists" plenty of times, if only because
it alliterates. Radical, fringe, zealot, and fanatic all carry perjorative
images in any case.
Bruce
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| | Re: True Right Wing Fascists
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| Scott: (...) True enough--I hadn't thought of that before. I've heard environmentalists referred to as "radical" or "fringe" before, but those words seem somehow to have a different resonance... Dave! (25 years ago, 19-Jan-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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