# "Complacency is complicity", or the limits of radicalism

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**Created:** [September 4, 2025, 4:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/complacency-is-complicity-or-the-limits-of-radicalism/1022749 "2025-09-04T16:07:42Z")\
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**Post date:** [September 4, 2025, 8:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/complacency-is-complicity-or-the-limits-of-radicalism/1022749/11 "2025-09-04T20:46:43Z")

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> [@Der\_Trihs](#):
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> Not that I ever noticed; calling people fascists was still taboo, especially if they _were_ fascists. People only started daring to use the word post-Trump

Well, I can think of _someone_ who was calling right wingers fascists back then too:

> [@Civil liberties eroded by "panic" now officially a fringe view](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/civil-liberties-eroded-by-panic-now-officially-a-fringe-view/524160/54):
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> I agree. As a nation, America has become borderline fascist; disdainful of the rights and freedoms it loves to pretend to champion. Brutal, aggressive, predatory, corrupt.

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