@ToolPackinMama Nah. It's easy enough to check the source.
https://www.merriam-webster.com/wordplay/fascism-meaning-and-history
@b4cks4w @ToolPackinMama
Appears to be disinformation from McKay, probably not willful. He just didn't vet his source.
https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/fascism-corporations-corporatism-dictionary/
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@S_r_stone @ToolPackinMama that's a feature of memes: they want to spread. Takes an effort to slow them down. See The Selfish Gene and The Meme Machine. https://bookshop.org/p/books/the-meme-machine-susan-blackmore/11718095
@b4cks4w @ToolPackinMama Right, but Adam McKay did actually say that in an article. He was just wrong. I am betting he didn't originate the idea though.
Corporatism is its own evil; it doesn't need to be equated with facism. (Nor set a conspiracy theory that the dictionary itself is complicit.)