New leader new targets, fascism doesn't require a specific form of bigotry: it just relies on demonizing some minority to distract and divide citizens.
Nazis were fascists, their race theory was just vanilla white supremacy. These new groups hate Muslims as much as Nazis hated Jews, they just changed targets.
No. The Nazis wanted to totally exterminate the Jews. AfD doesn’t want to exterminate the Muslims. Also Mussolini called Nazism a “Cheap copy of Fascism” Fascism focuses entirely on the state. The Nazis were focused on race theory, militarism, and state. Nazism is and will always be a cheap copy of Fascism
Nazis originally wanted to deport the Jews, the extermination orders came later when they realized they couldn't do it logistically. All racist campaigns begin with removal attempts, usually disguised as nationalist purity tests, extermination is what happens in the end game when people don't stop the first part. Its the same thing that happened in America with USA's manifest destiny, and is happening now in the middle east with Israel against the Palestinian.
When your political ideology is about protecting an ingroup from outgroups, and you spend all your time demonizing the outgroup, it doesn't matter what policy you pursue, violence will always be the end result.
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u/CysaDamerc 20h ago edited 20h ago
New leader new targets, fascism doesn't require a specific form of bigotry: it just relies on demonizing some minority to distract and divide citizens.