>>105599412While not focused solely on technology I do like to discuss the erosion of language and I don't mind discussing pieces of the overton window.
The issue also persists among centrists who lean towards the right like the current Labour government in the UK. They have a long standing issue of calling things far right, in some cases they are correct but in other cases they are unfortunately mistaken and it's just right wing beliefs.
This dissonance stems from they, themselves existing to the right of centre — often embodying beliefs that go beyond the dominant "right" party in an effort to appear tough or appeal to overs — and thus since they believe that they are the centre in a traditionally centre left party that things farther to the right of them are far right.
As the overton window shifts and slides, the centrist dads are just right or right of centre, sometimes they hold authoritarian beliefs that are built on technocracy which yes often appears fascist in nature. They are conflating fascism with authoritarianism.
Therefore when it comes to a term like neonazi, they pick up on that because they are seeing elements of fascism or authoritarianism within a structure and apply the label nazi.
This happens because people overused the term nazi quite significantly over time and such the erosion is baked in even when applied to terms like neonazi. Much like labelling xenophobia as racism, this dilution and erosion of language is the problematic element; all is service of giving everything a label because it can make it appear scathing.