I am all for free speech. What I am not in favour of is using spiteful words of hate to describe someone you don't agree with.
What is 'far right'? What 'far left'? What is fascism? There is no one alive in the western democratic world who can be calls a fascist.
A fascist is someone who kills everyone else except the people they like. Hitler did that. He killed everyone who was not of what he considered of 'pure Arian stock'. He killed disabled Germans - particularly with genetic diseases. He killed gypsies, but most he was responsible for killing millions of Jews all over Europe. The only people who are doing that at the moment are Hamas, who have declared ''We will kill all Jews wherever in the world they are''. That is why they invaded Israel and took hundreds of hostages into captivity.
Those words were first used over 100 years ago. They should stay there. In 1917 there was a Russian revolution and the Bolsheviks came to power, full of grand ideas about socialism, where everyone had the same and lived equally with one another. It turned out they were the same - poor, starving, out of work, hopeless. They took the wealth and it wasn't enough to go round. They took over the palaces and estates, but even putting one family a room, there still was not enough housing. They took the industries, but there was no money to run them, so people had no work. It was worse than socialism, and Stalin made it even worse: far left of socialism.
After the Great War Hitler was disillusioned with the peace. More died from flu in 1918 than in the war. Then there were strikes, and then the Wall Street Crash, and it was easy for Hitler to convince the Germans that it was all the fault of the Jews, and Germany would be so much better if they were all killed, along with disabled German children and adults, and anyone else who did not match up to the 'pure Arian race' Hitler thought Germany should be. Only those would be allowed to live, and a big new pure Germany would be the result.
Fascism.
Britain stood alone to fight the nazis. Britons fought and died, civilians lived and died, and all under the banners of the union flag, and every November we honour their name and their sacrifices. We are still waving the union flag and standing up to freedom, allowing no one to take it from us. We fought Hitler because we believed that killing off people that were not a certain grade was wrong.
Nationalism.
Now, for some reason there are people who have never learned the meanings of those words, never understood what went on, either because they were not interested or just had their own ideas. Their history books, if they opened them, tell them that Hitler was a fascist and hated by the world, so that when they hate someone they call them fascist.
They cannot learn that if someone says something you don't agree with calling them names is not the answer, especially not names that others pick up on and spread the hate. What is wrong with saying you don't agree with what is said, and putting your own view forward?
Nothing, but it doesn't have the same hysterical support 'far right,' 'far left' and 'nazi' and 'fascist' have. 100 year old words, 100 years ago they meant something. Now they do not in the western democratic world. We don't say ''thee'' and ''thou'' any more, yet they are not that much older than the others.
In the western world there is no place for those words. If the use of those words by people too pig ignorant to understand what they are saying continues, there will be more marches and counter marches, and more murders like Charlie Kirk.
Whoever these people are who are trying to impose these expressions on others are wrong to do so. They know full well the difference between nationalism under the country's flag, They call people 'far right' and fascist' who honour the flag because it stirs others up. It has nothing to do with reality, or truth, or anything other than an effort to cause civic unrest.
They are an unfortunate product of our wilting education system.