Lemmy

It's counterproductive to conflate racism, homophobia and transphobia with fascism.

They're all disgusting behaviors. Make no mistake, they're all mindless, anti-social, and dangerous. However lumping them into the term fascism trivializes what makes fascism in particular dangerous or appealing to its audience, it falsely suggests that fascism without those traits, a national fascism rather than a racial fascism (which is indeed what some fascists propose) isn't reprehensible, and makes people who have seen a defintion of fascism think it's just an ignorant slur just like calling any queer person a liberal, which will make people just not listen.

You don't have to be one to be the other. They're all horrible. Don't pretend their problem is being a fascist; their problem is being a racist anti-queer idiot.