Fascism doesn't exist. It's an arbitrary label under which everyone sticks a completely different list of things and calls it fascism. It isn't even correct to call it authoritarianism BECAUSE if you assemble a set of beliefs into a coherent ideological framework, this ideological framework must survive the evolutionary competitive pressures in order to grow and spread. The FASTEST way to give your ideological framework survival advantage is to apply as much force as humanly possible juuuuuust up to the point before people start reject your ideological framework. This is just natural evolutionary competitive pressure of an ideological framework applying survival pressure. If we were to assemble the values of everyone here into an ideological framework, we too would apply force, pressure and fascistic dogmatic vision towards things such as miscagenation, sexual deviancy, family rights, freedom of speech, freedom of thought, freedom of association, borders, trade, etc. There is no possible ideological framework that doesn't require the application of force / fascism because that is the point of an ideological framework. An ideological framework is supposed to identify the best set of parameters to maximize the happiness of a group and apply the right kind of evolutionary pressure on a group to procreate, expand and maximize it's genetic expression. The only ideological framework that doesn't apply force as part of its survival strategy is a dead ideological framework.