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@AnarchoNinaWrites@oliphant.social I learned to be weary of the phrase "anything they don't like." Very rarely, if ever, have I seen it used in a way that's beneficial to the idea presented, and almost without exception, it's there to provide a quick but crude generalization, or muddy the waters about exactly how bad the stance of a group is concerning a certain subject.

As an example, whenever an "independent leftist political commentator" says "the right labels as socialist, anyone they don't like", what they actually should have said is "fascists label as socialists, anyone they want to genocide."

So, is this a gross, but unintentional over-simplification, or is it a not-so-unintentional obscuring of the extent of vileness? I don't know in every case, but I have suspicions.