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Thread #124364   Message #2746447
Posted By: Fred McCormick
15-Oct-09 - 08:29 AM
Thread Name: Lyr Add: England My England
Subject: RE: England My England
"Whoever penned this ill-informed, jingoistic drivel is unlikely to be a fascist as adherence to such an ideology involves some understanding of economics and anthropology which is clearly lacking."

I doubt you'd need much more than the fingers of one hand to count the number of British fatshits who possess a grasp of economics.

Regarding anthropology, the evolutionary ideas of early anthropologists undeniably gave succour to fascist ideologies, as did the works of many other Victorian thinkers, Darwin, Spencer and Malthus among them. However, more recent social anthropologists,IE., those from the early years of the twentieth century onwards, have probably done more than any other academic discipline to explode the myth of racial inequality, which fascism has continually festered on.

BTW. Has English person ever been told not to call themselves English? I certainly haven't.