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"'''Blackshirt'''" is a derrogatory term for [[Council Security]]. | "'''Blackshirt'''" is a derrogatory term for [[Council Security]]. ([[Greetings from Earth]]). It is akin to the use of the word "[[Wikipedia:pig|pig]]" to describe a [[Wikipedia:police|civilian officer of the law]]. | ||
== Notes == | == Notes == | ||
* In the real world, the term "[[Wikipedia:Blackshirts|Blackshirt]]" was used for paramilitaries supporting Mussolini's fascist regime. Cf. "[[w:Redcoat|Redcoat]]". | * In the real world, the term "[[Wikipedia:Blackshirts|Blackshirt]]" was used for paramilitaries supporting Mussolini's fascist regime. Cf. also "[[w:Redcoat|Redcoat]]". | ||
* | * ''BSG''<nowiki>'</nowiki>s use of this term may have inspired the term "Brownshirt" in the much later science fiction TV series ''[[w:Firefly (TV series)|Firefly]]'', though that term was also applied to the Nazi [[w:Sturmabteilung|Stormtroops]]. | ||
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