This is a more nuanced take, I don't think you're wrong, but I do know that 90% of people who hate anteefuh don't know what fascism is. I'd say they might hear that they hate Nazis and think 'well they're the ones out in the streets beating people and telling us how we should think, that sounds like Nazis and Communists to me!!' (Because they don't know the difference between any ideologies, or anything, really.)
You're right, and I don't think I covered this fully - they don't know the meaning of non-fascist ideologies, ie communism. So equating communists to fascists is easy for them.
This coupled with my first point that they are actually in support of the fascists, while in denial of their own racism and fascistic beliefs makes it easy way to just ignore the meaning of words altogether.
This is a more nuanced take, I don't think you're wrong, but I do know that 90% of people who hate anteefuh don't know what fascism is. I'd say they might hear that they hate Nazis and think 'well they're the ones out in the streets beating people and telling us how we should think, that sounds like Nazis and Communists to me!!' (Because they don't know the difference between any ideologies, or anything, really.)
Edit your first point is basically this.
You're right, and I don't think I covered this fully - they don't know the meaning of non-fascist ideologies, ie communism. So equating communists to fascists is easy for them.
This coupled with my first point that they are actually in support of the fascists, while in denial of their own racism and fascistic beliefs makes it easy way to just ignore the meaning of words altogether.