@mimi  
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_Voters

For me, “fascist” can very well be used to describe a situation where 90% systematically use dominance and organization to gang up on 10% and deny them legitimate rights.

I guess where I differ from many is, I believe this ought to apply even when the people whose rights are being denied are on the opposite end of the political spectrum and hold “politically incorrect” opinions, even some I may personally find dubious or noxious.

The fact is, the people whom I know here in the former East Germany do not feel safe taking a stand and expressing their opinion on anything political or social.

A big reason is knowing that the dominant culture, both governmental and non-governmental, is united in organizing all kinds of “anti-Right” actions and campaigns to penalize people for coming out with “wrong” views (i.e. views that can be construed as “Right”).

Similar to the old days, it’s common knowledge here that an unguarded remark can easily lead to your being banned, de-platformed, fired from your job, faced with “hate speech” charges (Volksverhetzung), and subjected to intimidation up to and including vandalism, beatings, and arson. And that the anti-AfD 90% that run things will happily look the other way if the people attacking you can be portrayed as “antifascist” and if there is even the flimsiest gossamer thread of an argument for lumping you in with the unpopular populist 10% and/or linking you to evils that happened 75 or 80 years ago.

The people I am familiar with here see themselves as apolitical. Being an adventurous sort who likes to check things out for myself, I have gone to AfD events out of curiosity — they would never do that. They do not think of themselves as, or identify with, “the Right” at all. They are, however, all too aware how easily they could be smeared and pigeonholed as such nowadays . . .

Edited to add: So, it’s not so much that I have an ideology — ideology can lead one astray. Rather, I’m trying to open myself up more and more to seeing and hearing what people around me are actually saying and experiencing. Not — as I did for three decades or so — just taking part in virtue-signalling exercises within a Green / alternative-left media bubble, smug and self-satisfied in the conviction of our own moral superiority . . .

#1
and read this article here:
"Activists" start a "No Pixels for Facists" campaign. One of the leaders was informant for East Germany's Secret Police.

In there it is said:

From 1979 she continued her studies at Humboldt University of Berlin and taught the Portuguese language.[10] In 1979 and 1981 she worked as a translator for GDR engineering projects in São Tomé and Príncipe and Mozambique, where she observed East German officials behaving in a racist and condescending manner towards black Africans.[11] In 1982 she refused to continue as a Stasi informant[12] and as a result she lost the ability to travel outside the GDR,[9] her position at the university, and most of her translation work.[13]

From 1983 to at least 1988 the Stasi had her under surveillance.[14] In 1986 she applied to leave the GDR. In 1990, when the GDR had dissolved, she admitted to her friends that she had been a Stasi informant, but decided not to publicize it.[15

Ok, so she watched some East Germans in Africa making race-based derogatory remarks about 'the African'? She didn't like what she heard and saw there in the 'Jungle'?

Your words:

As in East Germany, the reunited Germany of Merkel and Maas is determined to ostracize and silence all voices and expression outside of a narrow band of views deemed compatible with approved narratives and ideology

and this:

Seems like fascism in the name of antifascism, if you ask me. But I’m just a free-speech First Amendment hippie holdout in a world that has perfected the marketing and marshalling of manufactured consent.

Civility, free discussion, civil liberties, literacy, impartiality, objective measures, logic — I’ve now lived long enough to see all of these dismissed by university professors as mere cultural tricks of right-wing racists, useful only for upholding white supremacy.

seems to me knotted spaghetti-style thinking of someone who has difficulties to accept that there is behavioral racism and with it upholding the arrogance of wanna-be white supremacist in the hiding.

But obviousle those wanna-bes are so arrogant or ignorant or desensitized to think they wouldn't need it hide it a little better. Age 'wisdoem', politcal ideology and class consciousness imo has very little to do with all of it.

Fascism in the name of anti-fascism? Lordy, lordy something is messed up here. Allow me to say that I can only follow you with difficulties. May be I read you wrongly.

1. I have been sensitized by watching West German diplomats and many, many other folks making racist and arrogant remarks - with great politeness - to express clearly how lowly they think of the 'black man'. These 'diplomats' don't even realize they talk in racially-based terms.

2. Kahane didn't like what she witnessed and said so. She paid a price for it, apparently.
At least she didn't fear to pay the price. I consider that not as a negative.

3. She worked with the Stasi? My question would be, who didn't work with the Stasi? How can you prove that a person, you trusted not to betray you, did betray you and worked with the Stasi, be it only to save her own skin? It's some similar situation, when some post-wwII kiddo tries to understand if her parents or any of the wwII generation was a Hitler supporter of Nazi or not. Probably a very difficult thing to find out and judge fairly, as there are few people, who would not lie about it or would admit it freely.

So, to claim that someone who lived in a fascist state and had some revolting feelings against it, to put down as just someone as being a fascist in the name of anti-fascism or in this case a racist in the name of anti-racism, is a bit ... too tense for my taste.

I wondered sometimes here, why some feel more betrayed by the sins of an Obama than by the same sins of a GWBush or Trump? Is that some subtle racism as well? Merkel and Maass have silenced and ostracized you? How come they didn't silence and ostracized me? Approved narrative and ideology? Well, my mileage varies from yours. And I haven't understood either your narrative nor your ideology. Me, too dumb for conditionals. Sorry. Please explain what you mean and give examples and proof for your claims.

Ok, I was not too amused and had not so much fun reading your comment, because I admit I am always in awe about your intellectual analysis you represent in your comments. But something gave me a hick-up this time. Probably I am a hidden racist and fascist. Who knows?

So, what didn't I understand?