They're against free speech?
Are you talking about Nazis and other very fine people?
I'm not sure how carrying the hammer and sickle flag etc etc etc makes them fascist.
Uh, yeah, they are. They commit violence to keep right wing people from speaking freely. I hate to break it to you, but that is FASCIST! The hammer and sickle is a flag for another form of FASCISM.
They try to prevent Nazis from speaking freely.
I know it makes me a bad person but I'm struggling to condemn them for that.
Were you American you would understand how foreign that is to us as a people. European countries don't allow free speech, look where that lead them. This country was FOUNDED on the concept that everyone was free to speak their minds...no matter how stupid, or idiotic. What they are NOT allowed to do, is prevent others from speaking through violence. That is the purview of FASCISTS. Funny how you can't understand that friendly speech needs no protection, it is only hate speech that does. And we allow that.
We all have the same ideals, in fact we're struggling with this very issue at the moment in a national debate about a visiting pair of speakers that were unable to find a venue to deliver their message of "white pride"...or whatever.
Despite my ideals, I have a problem with allowing free speech by people who's core philosophy and message is the denigration of entire races.
I don't call that 'friendly speech'.
As I said, that might make me a bad person, but I'm human so there you go.
And, look up 'Standing Rock' for an example of how the US upholds the right to free speech.