# How fascist are you? Take the fascism quiz **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [June 21, 2014, 4:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-fascist-are-you-take-the-fascism-quiz/691271 "2014-06-21T04:42:23Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Maserschmidt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/maserschmidt/32/18829_2.png) [@Maserschmidt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Maserschmidt)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2014, 3:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-fascist-are-you-take-the-fascism-quiz/691271/41 "2014-06-21T15:10:57Z")
> [@Knorf](#): > > 2.6666666666666… This. ---
**Author:** ![NeonMadman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/58f4c7/32.png) [@NeonMadman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NeonMadman)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2014, 3:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-fascist-are-you-take-the-fascism-quiz/691271/42 "2014-06-21T15:17:03Z")
> [@Rick\_Kitchen](#): > > Why didn’t it tell me that it only worked in IE before I answered all of the stupid questions? Worked just fine for me in Chrome. ---
**Author:** ![Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bosda_di_chi_of_tricor/32/16845_2.png) [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2014, 3:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-fascist-are-you-take-the-fascism-quiz/691271/43 "2014-06-21T15:26:20Z")
2.8333333333333335 A liberal airhead. But _almost_ normal. ---
**Author:** ![Eyebrows\_0f\_Doom](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eyebrows_0f_doom/32/3119_2.png) [@Eyebrows\_0f\_Doom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eyebrows_0f_Doom)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2014, 4:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-fascist-are-you-take-the-fascism-quiz/691271/44 "2014-06-21T16:02:06Z")
3.1 for me. “disciplined but tolerant; a true American” ---
**Author:** ![Siam\_Sam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d78d45/32.png) [@Siam\_Sam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siam_Sam)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2014, 4:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-fascist-are-you-take-the-fascism-quiz/691271/45 "2014-06-21T16:09:04Z")
2.6, a liberal airhead ---
**Author:** ![mbh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a6a055/32.png) [@mbh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mbh)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2014, 4:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-fascist-are-you-take-the-fascism-quiz/691271/46 "2014-06-21T16:24:50Z")
3.0666666666666 [I forget how many sixes. The last digit was a 7. Presumably a simple repeating decimal.] I am dubious about the usefulness of some of the questions. Left-wingers and right-wingers both have nutters who believe in conspiracy theories, and both sides have nutters who believe in astrology. ---
**Author:** ![Infovore](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/infovore/32/420_2.png) [@Infovore](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Infovore)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2014, 4:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-fascist-are-you-take-the-fascism-quiz/691271/47 "2014-06-21T16:40:22Z")
Another liberal airhead checking in… ---
**Author:** ![Shagnasty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9dc877/32.png) [@Shagnasty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shagnasty)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2014, 4:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-fascist-are-you-take-the-fascism-quiz/691271/48 "2014-06-21T16:53:32Z")
3.8, another _true American_ here. To all you other true Americans, listen up, what are we going to do about all these whining rotters and liberal airheads that seem to have infiltrated our ranks as of late? ---
**Author:** ![Shagnasty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9dc877/32.png) [@Shagnasty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shagnasty)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2014, 4:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-fascist-are-you-take-the-fascism-quiz/691271/49 "2014-06-21T16:59:23Z")
Incidently, I changed some of my answers to get an even higher score to see what result that gives because I don’t think anyone is going to do that naturally. 4 - 5 = “You should practice doing things with your left hand.” 5 - 6 = “Do you have trouble keeping lint off of your black short?” ---
**Author:** ![Don\_t\_Panic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/don_t_panic/32/398_2.png) [@Don\_t\_Panic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Don_t_Panic)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2014, 5:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-fascist-are-you-take-the-fascism-quiz/691271/50 "2014-06-21T17:12:24Z")
> [@Shagnasty](#): > > Incidently, I changed some of my answers to get an even higher score to see what result that gives because I don’t think anyone is going to do that naturally. > > 4 - 5 = “You should practice doing things with your left hand.” > > 5 - 6 = “Do you have trouble keeping lint off of your black short?” The categories you can get are listed under the quiz. It says “black shirts”, BTW. “Shorts” somehow seems funnier, though, even if it’s less sensical. ---
**Author:** ![Jackmannii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jackmannii/32/311_2.png) [@Jackmannii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jackmannii)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2014, 5:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-fascist-are-you-take-the-fascism-quiz/691271/51 "2014-06-21T17:22:42Z")
Hah, I’m a “liberal airhead”. Even though I mostly agreed with businessmen and manufacturers being a lot more valuable to society than artists and professors\*, and that some people are born with an urge to jump from high places\*\*. Go figure. Bottom line - I’m glad I wasn’t trying to get along in 1950 society. \*it’s a good thing they didn’t ask about lawyers. \*\*I’ve known lots of people with this attribute. I’ve stopped trying to talk them down. ---
**Author:** ![Claverhouse](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/13edae/32.png) [@Claverhouse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Claverhouse)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2014, 5:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-fascist-are-you-take-the-fascism-quiz/691271/52 "2014-06-21T17:27:08Z")
The semi-fascist Saviours of Britain, run by Roderick Spode in the 1930s were commonly called Black Shorts. Possibly a reference. ---
**Author:** ![Octarine](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/22d042/32.png) [@Octarine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Octarine)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2014, 5:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-fascist-are-you-take-the-fascism-quiz/691271/53 "2014-06-21T17:42:13Z")
2.3666 - another liberal airhead over here. The problem with quizzes like these is that it’s fairly obvious which responses lead to which results. Since being a fascist is generally seen as a negative trait, even if you were one subconsciously, you’d choose the “right” answers. ---
**Author:** ![mbh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a6a055/32.png) [@mbh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mbh)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2014, 5:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-fascist-are-you-take-the-fascism-quiz/691271/54 "2014-06-21T17:43:24Z")
If you want to be an **American** fascist, the shirts should be silver, not black. > **[Silver Legion of America](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silver_Shirts)** > > The Silver Legion of America, commonly known as the Silver Shirts, was an underground American pro-fascist and pro-Nazi organization which was founded by William Dudley Pelley and it was headquartered in Asheville, North Carolina. > Pelley was a former journalist, novelist and screenwriter turned spiritualist who began to promote antisemitic views by 1931, including the belief that Jews were possessed by demons. He formed the Silver Legion with the goal of bringing about a "spiritual and political... ---
**Author:** ![Starving\_Artist](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/aeb1de/32.png) [@Starving\_Artist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Starving_Artist)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2014, 5:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-fascist-are-you-take-the-fascism-quiz/691271/55 "2014-06-21T17:55:53Z")
> [@Little\_Nemo](#): > > You’re surprisingly upbeat for somebody who just got a high score on a test measuring your fascism. > > And the test doesn’t say disciplined or tolerant. It just says you’re an average American by the standards that existed in 1950. Many would dispute that was an era noted for tolerance. I, on the other hand, would dispute that the test doesn’t say disciplined or tolerant. It most certainly does. Note **Eyebrows of Doom’s** post where he quotes the test just like I did, same punctuation and all. Plus the test measures _my_ tolerance, not the era’s. ---
**Author:** ![pulykamell](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pulykamell/32/3166_2.png) [@pulykamell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pulykamell)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2014, 6:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-fascist-are-you-take-the-fascism-quiz/691271/56 "2014-06-21T18:05:36Z")
2.04 I’m a bit surprised, as I tended to answer middle-of-the-road for a lot of the questions. The “strongly disagree” ones were the “obvious” ones to me: the question about homosexuals, American way of life, astrology, conspiracy theories, a flood destroying the earth, and Greco-Roman sex. On the other hand, I think of myself as a mix of liberal and libertarian, so I guess both are, at least in theory, antithetical to fascism, so I guess that makes sense. ---
**Author:** ![Starving\_Artist](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/aeb1de/32.png) [@Starving\_Artist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Starving_Artist)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2014, 6:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-fascist-are-you-take-the-fascism-quiz/691271/57 "2014-06-21T18:09:01Z")
> [@Shagnasty](#): > > 3.8, another _true American_ here. To all you other true Americans, listen up, what are we going to do about all these whining rotters and liberal airheads that seem to have infiltrated our ranks as of late? Make 'em pay to post? We all know their type ain’t got no money. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Hari\_Seldon](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hari_seldon/32/5173_2.png) [@Hari\_Seldon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hari_Seldon)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2014, 6:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-fascist-are-you-take-the-fascism-quiz/691271/58 "2014-06-21T18:13:31Z")
> [@Little\_Nemo](#): > > I’m mid-level liberal airhead. 2.466666666666667 Hah, I had more 6s than that. ---
**Author:** ![x-ray\_vision](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/x-ray_vision/32/351_2.png) [@x-ray\_vision](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/x-ray_vision)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2014, 6:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-fascist-are-you-take-the-fascism-quiz/691271/59 "2014-06-21T18:29:23Z")
2.2 - Liberal Airhead. ---
**Author:** ![Kenm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/bc79bd/32.png) [@Kenm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kenm)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2014, 7:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-fascist-are-you-take-the-fascism-quiz/691271/60 "2014-06-21T19:03:31Z")
Fucking fascists call me a whining rotter. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-fascist-are-you-take-the-fascism-quiz/691271.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-fascist-are-you-take-the-fascism-quiz/691271.md?page=4)