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- noun A uniformed member of the Italian Fascist Party.
- noun Any member of a fascist party.
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Examples
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Did the horrible lefty poke fun at your blackshirt?
Hugh Muir's diary 2011
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You need to credit Eco's 14 ways of looking at a blackshirt by Leigh Meyers on Thursday, Feb 26, 2009 at 7: 15: 14 PM
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It's not as though MAWO's blackshirt conduct and deranged ideology was unknown to NDP activists, either.
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Check out this 1956 image of Samaranch in blackshirt uniform:
The Beleaguered Torch, Now With Nazi Origins - The Lede Blog - NYTimes.com 2008
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Also has resonance with Nick Cohen's outing of Galloway as a blackshirt-a-like in The Observer.
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Several readers are taking me to task for this post, in which I suggest that a blackshirt professor shouldn't be fired for expressing his opinions about 9/11 in the classroom - as long as his conspiracy theories are only being expressed as personal opinions and not an integral part of the course.
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None other than Mussolini style blackshirt, Michael Ledeen.
Firedoglake » Gold Bars Spins Back (How Could He Resist?) 2006
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It sounded like Mussolini was outside with the entire blackshirt brigade.
We Have a Pope! 2003
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It sounded like Mussolini was outside with the entire blackshirt brigade.
We Have a Pope! 2003
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Mal strolled up to a garish job ballyhooing Dawn of the Righteous — a noble Russki facing off a drooling blackshirt brandishing a Luger.
The Big Nowhere Ellroy, James, 1948- 1988
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