Historically, of the three true, and temporarily successful, f/Fascist movements - under Mussolini, Hitler and Franco - only Nazism was actually racist. The fact that a movement is racist, or filled with ignorant bullies, hardly makes it fascist. There is an unfortunate tendency to throw around terms without paying any attention to their actual meaning. Besides using fascist to refer to the BNP and its ilk, another example is the ridiculous use of "socialist" or even "communist" to refer to President Obama and the left wing of the Democratic Party in the US...who would generally be placed in the center or even the right-center of the political spectrum in most Western European countries.