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people are kinda nuts sometimes
Compassion for all living things isn't nuts, and I'm sympathetic, but calling killing bugs a fash tendency is not reasonable or productive. It's not indicative of anything. The only group that consistently refused to kill bugs, afaik, is the Jains. And there's only a few million of them. Saying that every other culture, society, government, group of people in the world has fash tendencies because they thoughtlessly kill bugs is not accurate and does not represent a remotely materialist analysis.
Yes. To defend OP, the title did say might be one and although Jeff Foxworthy has turned that 'might ' into an 'do' with that phrasing by association, it probably goes back further but whatever. So I can give ground that it's a red flag, and does have a mentality in common with fascism in regards to killing things you view as inferior and seeing it as totally cool and okay. Vegan struggle sesh material here, but the industrial slaughter of living beings for the utility of another does have some pretty clear parallels.
If anything that can do me harm is in the process of that or seems to be ready to and it's something like a bug, then I'm not gonna be able to reason with it and I can't really give it a nonnlethal physical scare. My hands are kinds tied there. But otherwise, I don't hurt things cause that's bad and does speak to a mindset that is certainly fash adjacent but not in any meaningfully determining way. I get where it's coming from.