Reply #120: No, not "Fascist".

[Dhalgren]

Any time that there is a struggle against power, it is the easiest position to take to do nothing. You can trot out numerous reasons for not confronting the oppressor - and each of them will be variously valid based upon the assumption that fighting the oppressor is futile. Sometimes you just make a stand because it has to be made. When the Minute Men stood their ground in Lexington and Concord, it was "fruitless", because they could not possibly hope to "win" against the British army. But they made their stand because they had had enough and making a stand was the only action they could take. The same with Rosa Parks, she had had enough - well, so have we.

If you tell us to sit down and shut up, we will take it badly. It doesn't mean we are Fascists, it just means we are through listening to people who would appease the oppressors.