[quote=@Vilageidiotx] We're using fascism a little broadly here, aren't were? The problem people have with Mussolini isn't simply that, under his rule, civilians sometimes punched Communists. A little more went on there. I think calls for mass murder are more than just "Unacceptable opinions." That's where I pretty much stand on this. I agree a government deciding which opinions are acceptable and which ones aren't is alarming, and I've stated that before, but at the same time I don't think that [u]civilians[/u] should be expected to treat something like genocide with the same civility they treat, say, healthcare. Or shit, even with the same civility we treat freedom. Also, I'm not even broadening the subject to fascism, I am treating Fascism and Nazism as separate entities here. I disagree heavily with fascists, but I don't think authoritarian nationalist opinions within themselves demand punching. But with Nazis, we're moving past simple dictatorship and on to mass murder. That's where the problem is. I simply can not reconcile political differences with genocide. [/quote] Using violence to beat down and scare dissenting opinions is very much a fascist trait. Whether you agree or not that antifa (or anti fascist people) is now also fascist, surely you can agree that they are engaging in fascist behavior at times. I can reconcile political differences with genocide, mostly because genocide can be rationalized. Maybe not to you, but it can be to these people. Everything is ideology. Even genocide. And politics tend to include ideology. The rationale that a race is weaker and is leeching off of the stronger and therefore they must be cleansed seems brutal and unfair but there's very much a rationale behind it, which can be politically motivated. It's not like there aren't tonnes of (political) books written about the theories of [i]why[/i] we should hate certain people, no?