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Canada now has a national law in the books that makes it a crime, among other things, for a person to refer to someone else using different pronouns than the second person doesn't want.

This is the first law in the West, to my recollection, that doesn't just make it a crime to say something non-physically-threatening - it actually makes it a crime to refuse to say something you have been ordered by law to say.

C-16 isn't just a censorship law. It's so much more than that.

Ordering people to speak things against their will and conscience, and ruining their lives if they resist doing so, is a preposterous violation of the principle of freedom of conscience - you know, that philosophical thing behind the general rule that says you control your mouth, but you do not get to control other people's mouths, and vice versa.

Freedom of conscience is a fundamental principle underpinning the whole of Western civilization. It's the very thing that allows you to, say, be supportive of gay people, without having to fear vindictive self-righteous pricks with the legal right to behead you or toss you in prison.

Well, it was the thing. Not anymore. Now we have vindictive self-righteous pricks who claim that you must be tossed in prison if you resist calling someone by their preferred pronouns.

And now that the principle has been violated, and there's legal precedent to violate it once again, there will be no shortage of vindictive self-righteous pricks who will try to legislate their own commandments on you.

Folks, pay attention: this has gone beyond social justice assholes merely smearing you for not falling in line with their cult. Now they want you in prison too.

This is exactly how totalitarianism looks like. What's coming next is not pretty. Read Solzhenitsyn. Read about Mao's Cultural Revolution. Study history, so that you don't become a bloody statistic in it.

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Update: in this debate, you can find positive confirmation of all my allegations in this post. I wasn't even aware that Canada actually does have institutions literally named social justice tribunals (around minute 37). Further proof that the authoritarians aren't even trying to hide their intentions.

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Canada has entered the totalitarianism of mandated speech

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Canada now has a national law in the books that makes it a crime, among other things, for a person to refer to someone else using different pronouns than the second person doesn't want.

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FDR and the NEW DEAL " The only thing we have to fear is.... fear itself"

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Therapist David Darvasi wants us to take another look at depression, and how we treat people who are affected

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APS Collective Bargaining Agreements | Human Resources & Academic Personnel Services

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Academic Student Employees (Teaching Associates, Graduate Assistants, and Instructional Student Assistants) are part of Collective Bargaining Unit 11, which is represented by the California Alliance of Academic Student Employees/International Union, United Automobile, Aerospace and Agricultural Implement Workers of America (UAW).

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Oxford Dictionaries this week chose "post-truth" as its new word of the year. It could instead have opted for an old term that is very much in use in 2016: "fascism".

Anti-immigration sentiment and rhetoric on both sides of the Atlantic have been labelled fascist, and critics of Donald Trump, some of them well within the political mainstream, have suggested that his victory in the US election is a sign that fascism is on the rise there.

Nigel Farage and Ukip are often called fascist. Even the pressure exerted on those in the public eye to wear a poppy commemorating Britain's war dead has been dubbed "poppy fascism".

Other commentators have resisted the use of the term, and suggested that it does not accurately describe today's politicians in the US and UK.

What does fascism mean?

The Oxford English Dictionary says fascism is "an authoritarian and nationalistic system of government and social organisation which emerged after the end of the First World War in 1918, and became a prominent force in European politics during the 1920s and 1930s, most notably in Italy and Germany".

The concept is a complex one and it can sometimes be easier to point to examples - such as the regimes of Benito Mussolini, Adolf Hitler or Francisco Franco - than offer an all-encompassing definition.

As secondary school history teachers have explained for decades, the word came into English from Latin, via Italian. The "fasces" were a bundle of sticks used to administer punishments, which became symbolic of government in ancient Rome. They were seized upon as an emblem by Mussolini as he tried to drag 1920s' Italy back to the perceived glory days of the Roman Empire.

So Mussolini created the term originally?

Yes - but by extension, says the OED, the word can now mean any "extreme right-wing political ideology based on the principles underlying [Mussolini's and Hitler's regimes]".

Mussolini summed up his politics in three clauses in a speech he made in 1925: "Tutto nello Stato, niente al di fuori dello Stato, nulla contro lo Stato." ("Everything in the state, nothing outside the state, nothing against the state.")

Are Trump and Farage really 'fascists'?

Clearly not. Neither has ever espoused fascist government. But the charge is levelled at them on the basis of the "thin end of the wedge" argument: they are both nationalists and have both focused on immigration. Nationalism is integral to fascism - and the scapegoating of immigrants is deeply associated with it.

For example, opponents claim there are echoes of the rise of Hitler's fascist regime in Trump's demonisation of Muslims. The Nazis chose to scapegoat Jews to distract the German populace from their real problems - and critics have argued that Trump has used Muslims and Mexicans for exactly that purpose on the campaign trail.

It would be harder to pin that charge on the Ukip interim leader, whose rhetoric has been more moderate. But some liberals point to his insistence that the presence of immigrants in the UK is a major cause of social problems and to his admiration for Trump.

Others argue that to use the label "fascist" to describe politicians such as Trump and Farage trivialises the crimes of real fascist regimes and those who suffered at the hands of their dictators.

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What is fascism - and does Trump's victory really show it on the rise?

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Oxford Dictionaries this week chose "post-truth" as its new word of the year. It could instead have opted for an old term that is very much in use in 2016: "fascism".

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using fear to gain power
a historical significance is that there is a record of massive slaughter,scapegoats ,starvation and destruction of wealth.

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govt that controls all aspects of society
a historical significance is that by the beginning of world war 2 it had become a single party goverment.

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govt involvement in public works /economy relief ,reform and recover
a historical significance is that the new deal failed to end the great depression.

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right of unions to negotiate over wages and hours.
a historical significance is that there are different types of it like conjunctive,distributive,co-operative and integrative

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period of low economy activity and rising unemployment
a historical significance is that it was originally called melancholia .