I Do Not Think You Know What That Word Means

David Weigel — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 17:19:29 +0000

National Review’s Andrew Stuttaford reports, in disgust, on protesters disrupting a British National Party press conference by tossing eggs and chanting “off our streets, Nazi scum.”

Fighting fascism the fascist way, I guess.

I suppose there are more polite ways of interrupting a Holocaust denier’s speech, but what’s “fascist” about it? Would Stuttaford cry “fascism” if, say, a group of democracy protesters threw eggs at Hugo Chavez?

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I Do Not Think You Know What That Word Means