A Linguist on "Islamo-fascism"

Prof. Geoffrey Nunberg, in 'Islamo-Creeps' Would Be More Accurate*:

in the mouths of the neocons, "fascist" is just an evocative label for people who are fanatical, intolerant and generally creepy. In fact, that was pretty much what the word stood for among the 1960s radicals, who used it as a one-size-fits-all epithet for the Nixon administration, American capitalism, the police, reserved concert seating and all other varieties of social control that disinclined them to work on Maggie's farm no more.

Geoffrey Nunberg - pieces from Fresh Air/NPR were always well worth a listen.

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