[Ads-l] Christofascism, Christofascist

[Barretts Mail]

Sorry, what I meant was the idea that it could have been reclaimed or undergone elevation since its coinage.

> On 27 Jan 2017, at 12:24, Jonathan Lighter <wuxxmupp2000 at GMAIL.COM> wrote:
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>> coined as a pejorative
> 
> You mean there was another possibility?
> 
> JL
> 
> On Fri, Jan 27, 2017 at 2:59 PM, Barretts Mail <mail.barretts at gmail.com>
> wrote:
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>> Thank you for the follow-ups. The Wikipedia article notes that it was
>> coined as a pejorative, so it may very well have disappeared from use due
>> to sociopolitical circumstance. BB
>> 
>>> On 27 Jan 2017, at 11:56, victor steinbok <aardvark66 at GMAIL.COM> wrote:
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>>> Sorry, yes. I was not disputing the coinage. Just wide use. Term was
>>> popular during Clinton administration but has virtually disappeared since
>>> 2008 (I've used it in social media but I'm yet to have seen anyone else
>> use
>>> it in the last 10 years; until now).
>>> 
>>> On Fri, Jan 27, 2017 at 2:50 PM, Barretts Mail <mail.barretts at gmail.com>
>>> wrote:
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>>>> 1970 according to the Wikipedia article I cited below :)
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>>>>> On 27 Jan 2017, at 11:49, victor steinbok <aardvark66 at GMAIL.COM>
>> wrote:
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>>>>> Christofascist/m goes a long way back as a term. Certainly used
>>>>> disparagingly in the early 1990s (OK, *I* used it disparagingly in the
>>>>> early 1990s). Might go back even further but in different circles,
>>>> perhaps
>>>>> on USENET.
>>>>> 
>>>>> VS-)
>>>>> 
>>>>> On Fri, Jan 27, 2017 at 1:49 PM, Barretts Mail <
>> mail.barretts at gmail.com>
>>>>> wrote:
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>>>>>> Kieryn Darkwater has an article titled "I Was Trained for the Culture
>> =
>>>>>> Wars in Home School, Awaiting Someone Like Mike Pence as a
>>>>>> Messiah=E2=80=9D=
>>>>>> (http://bit.ly/2jWibX3 <http://bit.ly/2jWibX3>) published yesterday
>> on
>>>> =
>>>>>> Autostraddle. She explains that Trump=E2=80=99s rise is due to =
>>>>>> Christofascists, where Trump is a front for Pence to convert the US to
>>>> a =
>>>>>> theocracy.
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> The online Oxford English dictionaries do not have the terms
>> =E2=80=9C =
>>>>>> Christofascism=E2=80=9D and =E2=80=9CChristofascist=E2=80=9D.=20
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christofascism =
>>>>>> <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christofascism>) says the term
>>>> =E2=80=9C =
>>>>>> Christofascism=E2=80=9D was coined in 1970 by Dorothee S=C3=B6lle.
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> Benjamin Barrett
>>>>>> Formerly of Seattle, WA=
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