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Or perhaps some people aren't fascist when they are angry about the communication problems with refugees, for example . Perhaps they are just simple minded, a bit stupid, politically uninterested, whatever.
These people will always exist. They don't go away when we hate them a lot. Or when we label them as fascist in some kind of Gotcha moment.
A practical solution would be to deal with their problems. Which can easily be done if you are willing to pay a bit of money for community centers etc., which could help with communication and integration tremendously.
It's a mislead interpretation of what tolerance means that makes people wilfully blind to these issues. They will even risk having a party like the AFD growing in seats for this.
Understanding any problem is a crucial condition for solving it. That includes accurately understanding and characterizing what's going on. The goal isn't to name-call people sucked into a fascist movement, it's to not bury our heads in the sand and pretend fascism isn't making a huge comeback. That includes actually being able to explain to these people the nature and structure of a fascist movement so they can understand how they've been duped.