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Originally Posted by Sephiroth
You are right to call out those who come out with this fascist rubbish.
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Thank you - the kind of response from you does set my mind at ease that the majority of people here do not espouse the views that Hom3r was advocating and I was unsure if he meant it or not - I assumed that it was either a very crass joke or just flippant sarcasm.
The definition was perfect on your part - his comments specifically espouse the doctrine of fascism.
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But please do not tar all Brexiters with that brush as you (possibly unintentionally) have done.
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Yeah it sadly does pass off the impression of what Roger Helmer did through his parliamentary run - tar and feather the entire party of UKIP as voluntary repatriation proponents when nothing could be further from the truth.
Farage of all people even said after the debate that the first thing that Britain should do is unilaterally guarantee the rights of all EU citizens otherwise it makes Britain look like a banana republic. Sadly with views like hom3r's (if serious) make the UK look exactly like that - labelled as a banana Republic.
Thank you again for your post - it would indeed be wrong to see everyone who voted leave labelled as those of having crazy views and I
hate the idea of that - whether it is in regards to gender / race / nationality / age etc etc.
More sane people who voted leave coming forward with their own opinions / views will expand the debate and the more voices the more rational the issue will be, because most of us still have faith that the decency of human beings (whatever side of the aisle that you are on) will prevail - shutting out people from the debate / out of the country is exactly what you described it as - the precursor to fascism.