On use of word 'fascism'

Is it important that one topic is fascism and the other is not? They can both be rooted in a path towards fascism. Pitting antifascists against other antifascists keeps resistance fractured so the fascist regime can triumph.

fascism and antifascism are diametrically opposed.

im not continuing the conversation if it needs to bypass that fascism and antifascism are in direct opposition of each other. Im aware of the media buzzword "antifa" that creates the image in your head of young scrawny whiny sophomore children with piercings, acne, and colored hair.

Corporate media is owned by a small few massive corporations and it is in their interest to operate unnopposed. If I have to pretend this buzzword is representative of the comprised opposition to fascism for us to talk about real life stuff then I'm out. Thats your fantasy and you can crumble in your little ball of anxiety without me.

Talk to me when you want to know real answers.

You are welcome to withdraw from this topic. The reason is:
1. The argument you make about antifascism is derailing the thread. This thread is about recognising all human-rights totalitarian regimes, regardless of what ideology underpins them. For this purpose, far left ideology is an evil that is equal to far right, and the proof of that is what is going on in Canada and Australia as we speak.
2. You imply that participating in "antifascist" movement is a sufficient and the only way to combat fascism. Your implication is incorrect both ways.

dn already addressed the issue with what "antifascism" is vs what it professes to be, saving me the trouble of explaining it myself. Thus I'm going to focus on those two issues above.

1. Re: far left and far right resulting in totalitarian state is an idea that I first heard at politology courses in university. Whereas the conventional left-right wing view represents left wing as "strong individual rights" and right wing as "strong state", and there is a line going from left-to-right, there is alternate view that instead draws the political wing as an U-shaped curve. Where both ends of U are far(radical) left and right respectively, and both are totalitarian. This theory (U-shaped view) seems to reflect reality better.

2. Re: how to avoid fascism, and indeed any kind of totalitarian state. As per lessons from history (the Nazi Germany), the following was crucial to Hitler's success:
2.1. Policies gradually introduced outlawing various categories of people, with people of one category not bothering to stand up for people of another, because they were opposed or otherwise irrelevant to each other. When one category was targeted, the others didn't speak up in its defense, enabling Nazis to rid them one by one.
2.2. Policies didn't start with killing entire groups of people, but rather imposing limitations on them (what public facilities they can visit, etc.), or imprisonment.
2.3. Those working for the state didn't oppose orders violating the laws that were in effect that time.
Thus the priority way to block Nazis, or indeed any political power commiting crimes against humanity, would be:
- Refusal by state actors to obey all unlawful orders, and importantly all orders violating human rights.
- Criminal trial for those who issue and those who agree to execute those unlawful orders. There also needs to be investigation in all kind of "emergency act" invokations with the possibility of prosecuting a person who invoked this act. Actually, per Canadian emergency act law, if I got it correctly, it is to be invoked to protect citizens against external threats, not to designate own citizens to be state's (or public's) enemy. One group already filed a lawsuit against emergency act, but it would have been better if state itself did realize the necessity to and opened an investigation into whether Trudeau had the rights to invoke it.
- Solidarity among people of all political dispositions (including having no political bias at all) in defending human rights even of those people whose political views are opposite of yours/undesirable. An individual having far right views is not a license for state to kill or maim him. Criminals have human rights too.
- Civil disobedience towards any state decrees that violate constitution / human rights.