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You have to accept that not everything happening in the world you dislike qualifies for fascism, genocide or equivalence to Hitler.

Overusing these labels dilutes their 'brand', and then you don't have appropriate adjectives for real cases of fascism or genocide.

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Over-application of "Godwin's Law" removes our ability to learn lessons from history.

(Not to mention those sort of comments are nothing but unproductive comment sniping. They do absolutely nothing to further the conversation.)

Rather than fascism per-se, actions like holding people without charge, perusing their personal belongings and papers without due process, and threatening families or associates, are the marks of totalitarianism. It exists on both the right and left ends of the political spectrum.

> It exists on both the right and left ends of the political spectrum.

Even though those are relatively exotic forms, compared to the one that exists in the middle of the political spectrum.

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