• ChonkyOwlbear@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Let me simplify. You used the example of Democrats believing in haves and have nots. Observing that some people are more wealthy than others is reality, not belief in a hierarchy. Believing that rich people are rich because they are innately better and poor people are poor because they are innately worse is a belief in a natural social hierarchy.

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                1 year ago

                Close but not quite. Every human society has social stratification, even if it's only things like the jocks and nerds in high school. That makes it fascistic is the belief that those strata are innate and not social constructs. That is, the poor are inferior while the rich are superior, or whites are superior while blacks are inferior.

                • commie@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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                  1 year ago

                  you're making this up. all that is necessary is enforcement of the stratification to meet this bar.