Originally Posted by
robertorolfo
I tend to agree, but it seems to happen a lot. All the lame complaints these days about appropriation...
But hey, let's start a website about everything related to fasces, throw on the same suffix, and see how it goes...
It does, and I dismiss most of those as well. And "fasc-" is nowhere near as common as "future". And "fascism" holds a special and highly-negative connotation for most people. A better example would be, say, if Rubik's Cube enthusiasts started a club called "Cubists" and adherents of Cubism got upset. Dadaists, on the other hand, would have a point, since "dada" is not usually used, at least by people older than, say, 2.
As for appropriation, that's best not discussed here. I keep stopping myself from typing more.