Larry Tapper wrote:
Taylor Kingston wrote:
Rob wrote:
I call for the Chess Fachists to simply begin their own group and leave
the rest of us to think and breath free, unimcumbered under the iron fists
of their ridicule and persicutions for our opinions and ideas.

Rob, one of the distinguishing characteristics of fascism is that
under it, the publication of factual truth is suppressed in favor of
propaganda. Lies, half-truths, fabrications and slanders that serve the
interest of the ruling party are advanced at the expense of the
public's right to factual information.
Another typical fascist ploy is that normal definitions are stood on
their heads, e.g. "War is peace, freedom is slavery, ignorance is
strength" (Orwell). The way you use such terms as "free," "persicution"
[sic] and "iron fist" above indicates you may unwittingly be falling
into that manner of speech, something I'm sure you will want to avoid.


I dare say they know who they are and should they go unnamed? One is
the initiator of the "Pledge" against Mr. Inness.

Seriously, Rob, ask yourself: who here acts more like a fascist-style
propaganda ministry: Innes, Parr, Sloan et al, or those who try here to
counter their habitual falsehoods?

My feeling about this is that generally speaking, chessplayers make
terrible fascists, because they tend to be individualistic and
anti-authoritarian. This goes for Parr and Sloan, certainly, as well as
our alleged cabal of 'ratpackers'.

Anyway, it's hard to see what the point is of Rob's latest
instantiation of Godwin's Law:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Godwin's_law

"Godwin's Law" -- clever, insightful, and very apt here. I had not
heard of it until now.

It's not as if anyone is advocating actually banning Phil Innes from
the group, let alone exterminating the guy. And if unpleasant,
repetitive badgering of a poster who gets one's goat looks like fascism
to Rob, we'd certainly have to put Larry Parr's 200+ posts about "NMNot
Kingston" in that category.

LT