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This is in reference to specific kinds of activities not the overall political system. People will call unusually restrictive librarians fascist. It’s just how languages evolve over time.

Fascism: “2: a tendency toward or actual exercise of strong autocratic or dictatorial control” https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/fascism

It also mentions the the first definition which you’re thinking of is usually capitalized.


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This definition has been in dictionaries for 50+ years, so the evolution happened a long time ago.

Arguing at this point is just ignorance.




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