Comment by xp84

It's hard to take that seriously, given how obviously it's written by someone with a specific leftist agenda. For instance: "The governments of fascist nations tend to be almost exclusively male-dominated." By this logic, I think every government is "fascist."

Also, the World Cup brings out a ton of patriotic songs and flags. Does everybody get fascist at World Cup time?

> "The people are rallied into a unifying patriotic frenzy over the need to eliminate a perceived common threat or foe"

Here's another really nice one: it cannot be falsified, as by this definition, as it takes for granted that we don't have any common threats or foes. All threats are presumed to be fake and ginned up by the fascists.

> "Disdain for Intellectuals and the Arts: Fascist nations tend to promote and tolerate open hostility to higher education, and academia. It is not uncommon for professors and other academics to be censored or even arrested."

What about if a party disdains academia because (apart from just being a scam to get students indebted) it's become an echo chamber where only leftist discourse is welcome, and professors get fired for disagreeing with that. Which side is fascist here, now I've lost track.

What I've learned from this list is basically what I was implying in my original assertion: "Fascism" = "Anything leftists don't like"