Letters to the Editor: The real ‘fascism’ we face is weaponised snobbery

One reader writes that terms such as 'far-right', 'fascist', and 'anti-immigration' are flung about interchangeably, and as if they have universally-accepted definitions

Workers clearing debris from a burned-out bus and Luas tram on O'Connell Street in the wake of the violence scenes in Dublin city centre on  Thursday November 23. Picture: Brian Lawless/PA

In the stories of barbarian warrior leaders being converted to Christianity, there is often a part where the convert boasts he would have vanquished Jesus’ enemies had he been present at the time. 

It seems to me that when the trendier “left” constantly invoke modern day “fascist” bogeymen, they are echoing those barbarians — wishing into existence an evil enemy to kill in the name of their new-found saintliness.