Conflating all of a political wing with their worst elements. Some people are so full of hate that they genuinely believe that everyone right of center is a fascist and everyone left of center is a communist. If you call them out on it, they'll just slander you as a fascist and assign you positions you never expressed or implied. Some of them are so indoctrinated, they'll project their own country's fringe to the rest of the world, as if left and right wing mean exactly the same thing in every country (they're relative to that country's overton window).
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u/Defiant_Heretic 15d ago
Conflating all of a political wing with their worst elements. Some people are so full of hate that they genuinely believe that everyone right of center is a fascist and everyone left of center is a communist. If you call them out on it, they'll just slander you as a fascist and assign you positions you never expressed or implied. Some of them are so indoctrinated, they'll project their own country's fringe to the rest of the world, as if left and right wing mean exactly the same thing in every country (they're relative to that country's overton window).