# Best Buy Fascists? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [January 19, 2015, 2:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-buy-fascists/710247 "2015-01-19T02:30:52Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 10\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![mbh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a6a055/32.png) [@mbh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mbh)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2015, 4:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-buy-fascists/710247/21 "2015-01-20T16:34:04Z")
Red shirts: Mexican anti-religious paramilitaries. Considered themselves Marxist, though modern leftists disavow them. Racist paramilitaries in post-Civil War southern U.S. Thai opposition group. Nominally left-of-center, but accused of having ties to the Khmer Rouge. Yellow shirts: Thai monarchist group. Gold shirts: Mexican fascist paramilitaries. Green shirts: Fascists in Brazil, Hungary, Romania, and Egypt. Right-wing party in Spain. Social Credit party in the UK. “Agrarian militia” in France. Regionalist party in Italy. Blue shirts: Anti-fascist group in the USA Fascist groups in Britain, Canada, France, Ireland, Portugal, Romania,Spain. Chinese political party, not sure where they fit on the spectrum. East German Communist youth organization. Purple shirts: UK anti-bullying group. Grey shirts: South African fascists. Silver shirts: US fascists. Black shirts: Fascists in Italy, Germany, UK Atheists in India “Fathers’ rights” group in Australia. Looks like every color has been taken except for orange. ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2015, 4:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-buy-fascists/710247/22 "2015-01-20T16:39:56Z")
It’s not the colour of the shirts. It’s that they’re _calling_ them ‘Blue Shirts’. It would be like UPS calling their employees ‘Brown Shirts’. ---
**Author:** ![AncientHumanoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ancienthumanoid/32/278_2.png) [@AncientHumanoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AncientHumanoid)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2015, 4:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-buy-fascists/710247/23 "2015-01-20T16:54:34Z")
Or the Home Shopping Network having a Midnight Madness Sale of cutlery and calling it “The Night of the Long Knives” ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2015, 5:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-buy-fascists/710247/24 "2015-01-20T17:01:43Z")
> [@Tom\_Tildrum](#): > > Or you might run into **Der Trihs** , God forbid. 😉 Does he ever leave his mother’s basement? ---
**Author:** ![Amateur\_Barbarian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/59ef9b/32.png) [@Amateur\_Barbarian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Amateur_Barbarian)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2015, 5:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-buy-fascists/710247/25 "2015-01-20T17:03:11Z")
Maybe groups should use another way to ID themselves. I know… they could use a loop of ribbon! Shouldn’t need more than one or two colors, right? ---
**Author:** ![AncientHumanoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ancienthumanoid/32/278_2.png) [@AncientHumanoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AncientHumanoid)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2015, 5:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-buy-fascists/710247/26 "2015-01-20T17:07:17Z")
I like going to Target in khakis and a red polo. Works at Walmart, too. Any color polo, actually. If you look anywhere close to the part, and act like you’re in charge, some people will just obey. “Why is this cat litter in the Pet aisle? It needs to be in Baking. Step on it! Come on, people! Stuff doesn’t sell itself!” ---
**Author:** ![Loach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/loach/32/350_2.png) [@Loach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Loach)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2015, 5:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-buy-fascists/710247/27 "2015-01-20T17:14:44Z")
> [@astorian](#): > > Does he ever leave his mother’s basement? Tom Tildrum was making a little joke about **Der Trihs** ’ user name. You are making an attack on his character. And he isn’t even in the thread. That is way out of bounds for MPSIMS. I am going out on a limb and assuming you meant it as a joke. You’ve been around longer than me and should know better. Don’t do it again. No warning issued. ---
**Author:** ![Tom\_Tildrum](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/e95f7d/32.png) [@Tom\_Tildrum](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tom_Tildrum)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2015, 5:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-buy-fascists/710247/28 "2015-01-20T17:29:26Z")
> [@Johnny\_L.A](#): > > It’s not the colour of the shirts. It’s that they’re _calling_ them ‘Blue Shirts’. It would be like UPS calling their employees ‘Brown Shirts’. The slogans would still sort of work: “What can the Brownshirts do for you? Or to you? Or to your family?” ---
**Author:** ![kopek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kopek/32/337_2.png) [@kopek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kopek)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2015, 5:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-buy-fascists/710247/29 "2015-01-20T17:49:04Z")
> [@mbh](#): > > Looks like every color has been taken except for orange. Irish Protestants? ---
**Author:** ![thelurkinghorror](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/7c8e57/32.png) [@thelurkinghorror](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/thelurkinghorror)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2015, 6:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-buy-fascists/710247/30 "2015-01-20T18:52:32Z")
> [@AncientHumanoid](#): > > I like going to Target in khakis and a red polo. Works at Walmart, too. Any color polo, actually. If you look anywhere close to the part, and act like you’re in charge, some people will just obey. > > “Why is this cat litter in the Pet aisle? It needs to be in Baking. Step on it! Come on, people! Stuff doesn’t sell itself!” [Dozens of blueshirts in Best Buy](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KgUIbPfhSuo). > [@kopek](#): > > Irish Protestants? More like Orange Cummerbunds. I don’t know of any Mauve Shirts though. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-buy-fascists/710247.md?page=1)