It adds to the sloppy thinking that they don't distinguish between white nationalism and fascism. Both ideologies are heinous, but heinous in different ways. And trying to pinpoint aspects of imagery in 300 that can be connected to fascistic propaganda—but can also be connected to a lot of non-fascistic…

I think this is a very good point. I don't think the 300 is doing that, but I can see that as a method often used for fascist propaganda.

I very much agree. Granted, it's somewhat tricky because feminists have derided the series, and they can hardly be called anti-female. But the series presents a fairly traditional male-female dynamic that is often criticised today, I think unfairly (and critics ignore the way the scenario modernizes that dynamic—Bella…

I agree with this. I don't mean my defense of the work to come across as "stop conveying/defending positions different from mine." Sorry if I've given that impression.

Again,you're just lying, I used "ethos" meaning "ethos" and you're just denying a viable definition of the word, regular employed in the description of rhetoric.

I've never heard of it, so thanks for the comment.

My point was that the author uses "fascism" as a bugaboo. Fascism is, in fact, notoriously difficult to define as a political ideology beyond "behavior we don't like." It's anti-democratic, and tends to involve a heavy level of state surveillance and control of means of production, but there are a lot of differing…

It's fairly empty to say that Sparta has "traits" of fascism. I guess you could say any country has "traits" in common with fascism, including the US. How does that make a movie about Sparta fascist? How does it make 300 specifically fascist? Persia is the country trying to dominate the (known) world and force all…

That is one definition of ethos. I teach rhetoric, so your bullshit doesn't fly with me. It also means the method by which one demonstrates trustworthiness and reliability. You use half-truths and insults. Thus ethos fail.

You literally misrepresented the definition of fascism the article gives. You conflated a historical instance with the article's definition. You aren't bothered by using sources accurately. Ethos fail. Not surprised you ran away after that.

The groups I name mock the speech, physical characteristics and cultural behavior of those different from them. All that denotes "race," whether the word existed yet or not.

No, they aren't. I can't make it any simpler for you. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/…

You are going to pretend Saxons, Franks, Britons did not consider themselves innately superior to one another and thus destined by God to subdue each other? Romans did not make a similar claim against other cultures? The members of Greek city states did not do this(Athenians did not see themselves as superior)? The…

They are not what defines fascism. Some fascist regimes use them, some don't.

Lol, you are unfamiliar with how Saxons, Nordics, Gauls considered themselves racially superior to those around them, and how this lead to the wars among France, England, and the German states throughout the Middle Ages? How Romans perceived so-called barbarians or even their own freed slaves? How the Greek city…

Literally every country in the history of the world prior to the 18th century envisioned itself as uniquely glorious and racially superior. They have been basic tenets of government. By your definition, every country prior to the American and French revolutions would be fascist.

You don't think Khrushchev or whatever Premier we want to name ran the Central Committee? You don't think he controlled the means of production or the military?

You gotta be pretty desperate to make a typo your first shot.

But wasn't "the Party" whoever was the leader, i.e. dictator? In what way did any committee or group make these decisions? Certainly "the people" never owned the means of production or controlled the military.

In many ways they did. Largely due to the Industrial Revolution.