# ISIS--you're going down

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/isis-youre-going-down/695073>\
**Category:** The BBQ Pit\
**Created:** [August 8, 2014, 1:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/isis-youre-going-down/695073 "2014-08-08T01:00:58Z")\
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**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\
**Post date:** [August 21, 2014, 4:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/isis-youre-going-down/695073/381 "2014-08-21T16:31:40Z")

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> [@adaher](#):
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> Not sure what the point is here.

The point is that reactionary anti-Communism is not always fine and dandy.

Also, if you know your civil-rights-movement history, it gave reactionary racists another stick to beat the movement with, characterizing it as “Communist,” etc. (And certainly Communists were sympathetic to it.)

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**Author:** ![adaher](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/dec6dc/32.png) [@adaher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/adaher)\
**Post date:** [August 21, 2014, 4:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/isis-youre-going-down/695073/382 "2014-08-21T16:33:41Z")

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Neither is anti-Nazism, or anti-racism, or anti-sexism.

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