fascism

[Malignd]

<<I quote:
 
"Black and white worked together, fraternized
together. The very fact that laws had to be passed
after a while to forbid such relations indicates the
strength of that tendancy. In 1661 a law was passed in
Virginia that 'in case any English servant shall run
away in company of any Negroes' he would have to give
special service for extra years to the master of the
runaway Negro. In 1691, Virginia provided for the
banishment of any 'white man or woman being free who
shall intermarry with a negro, mulatoo, or Indian man
or woman bond or free.'"
 
What would "the government" have to do before you
admitted that they were, indeed, down on the
plantation, making sure that massas were properly
cruel?>>

It's a good quote, but what exactly is the relevance 
of legislation in the colony of Virginia over a
century before even the Articles of Confederation to
the question of whether the US is fascistic?

And even if one were agreeable to the idea that
seventeenth century Viriginia is an apt stand-in for
the entire US two and three centuries later, an
attempt to understand the bizarre and perverse
intermingling of economics and pathology that
characterize white attitudes toward blacks in the
American south is thwarted rather than aided simply by
slapping the word "fascism" on it.

It's Gresham's law applied to language:  the word has
fallen prey to inflation.



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