@robjessel @HJoyceGender @bindelj Right, I've been meaning to return to this, in among the fray.

The well established Ur Fascism by Umberto Eco lays out succinctly fourteen characteristics of fascist movements.

What you're describing is authoritarianism, or totalitarianism. Your thesis is garbled but regardless @robjessel @HJoyceGender @bindelj "Intolerance of dissent" is, in fact, not a feature of Fascism as it grows. Most fascists are acutely aware of how distasteful the public finds their views, and will form alliances with conservative and other liberal actors in order to further their ends. The ends being genocide.

We should be frank and abundantly clear.

A set of TERFs under @millar_marion 's guidance and leadership went to @DoctorsBar specifically to try and escalate the violence inherent in their hate movement.

They have attempted to escalate from the ongoing discrimination to violence They, like most fascist movements, try to hide their overt bigotry behind a veil of "defending" an imagined community, with appeals to tradition and indeed a cult thereof. They suggest invisible conspiracies and engage in campaigns of anti intellectualism.

When I term them fash—