Can a movement similar to fascism emerge in the US?

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HappySqurriel said:

An english literature professor I had went into a 15 minute bigoted rant against evangelical christians that would have been considered hate speech in Canada if it were any non-christian religion she was talking about. Don't make any assumptions that when progressive individuals talk about "Tolerance" that they really intend to tolerate anyone's beliefs or views other than the ones they arbitrarily decide are in need of protection. Much like how the most vocal anti-gay crusaders have a nasty habit of turning out to be homosexual, quite often the most vocal tollerance-crusaders turn out to have the most bigoted world view; and this can be explained by a psychological defence mechanism called reaction formation (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reaction_formation).

As MrKhan said, such inappropriate behaviour happens sometimes, and all kinds of opinions are expressed. You can't say that it's only "liberal" who do such things, and I honestly doubt that it's such a common occurence from either side. I live in Romania, where things like integrity and professionalism are definately not the norm, and I've never had such an experience where a teacher/proffesor goes into a bigoted rant, nor have I heard of someone else having one (the closest were various religion teachers from middle school and high school going into anti-chatholic and antri-protestant rants, but at least then it was connected to the subject at hand).