Of course it is. Not "fascist" as in a government system but in the social sense, a group of thugs who envision the world as a certain way and then go out and terrorize those who depart from their perverse vision. That's what the Klan was doing when it pulled people out of their houses and whipped them for not going to church or being drunk. That's social fascism. That's why they were so adamantly Prohibitionist --- a way of controlling social behaviour with in that case the help of the government.
The same reason they were against integration --- controlling people despite the government. That's also why they enforced the segregation that preceded integration and made the latter necessary --- controlling social behaviour with the help of the local government, and acting as Jim Crow's enforcers. When Stetson Kennedy infiltrated the Klan in the 1940s he found that many of the local klavern were the local police. That's why taking his revelations to higher law authority wasn't effective --- systemic corruption --- and he found a much more effective avenue by writing an exposé book about it.
With the law or without it, the underlying purpose is always controlling social behaviour. The prime directive is to keep black / Jews / Catholics / immigrants / labor unions "in their place", to punish those who drank, gambled or philandered, all through intimidation. Obsession with controlling what other people are doing --- now that's what I call social fascism.
You respond to a post containing the word "anymore"
and cite behavior from PROHIBITION, and before.
Incredible.
What the fuck is your native language? "Any more", misspelled as one word, is used there as a comparator.
"You're not a rock star any more than I'm the queen of Belgium".
Your attempt to deflect from your nonsense with semantics is noted and laughed at.
Prohibition ended 85 years ago.
Hilarious.
--- And while it was on the Klan was pushing it. Which is the whole point contained in the nested posts.
Learn to English.
Today, the Klan is a powerless fringe.
While the Left is doing things like speech codes.
IN Canada and the UK, it is ILLEGALS to say certain things about gays or muslims. You can be arrested for believing and saying something that liberals don't like.
ANd many liberals here support such controlling shit.
SO, tell me. Do you really care about assholes being controlling. Or was that just something you said, so that you could attack your enemies?
The very concept of Freedom of Expression is the starting point of Liberalism. So anyone you care to cite trying to curb that freedom of expression, is anti-Liberal.
The fact that you can't tell the difference and insist on calling something its own opposite, is your problem, not that of the term you're abusing.
It does not go unnoticed that you're backing away from your own ridiculous misread about time periods and what defines 'fascist' behavior. I'll accept your concession as soon as you admit you just made it. Again, since the Klan was first founded over 150 years ago, citing some of its behavior from 85 years ago is one would have to say well within range, is it not?