The more I read the timeline on the Fediverse (which is quite a lot inclined to the left), the more often I read the word "fascists" and "nazis", applied to a whole bunch of people.
First I was horrified: "What? Nazis? Fascists? No no, not again, please, it's awful, absolutely disgusting!".
then, when I sifted deeper through the information, those people accused to be "nazis" were actually either just right-wing activists or had *some* far-right points of view, but most of their reasoning was moderate.
Then again there were posts like "fascist! Nazi! block him! Boycot him!" — and the person in question said something like "there's too much far-left discourse in the modern society" or "My country doesn't take enough measures to integrate immigrants from certain regions of the planet" or even "I don't support hamas".
You know what, dear leftists? that is a classical case of "The boy who cried wolf" (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Boy_…).
When real wolves come, nobody will trust you because even now, when I see "fascist" or "nazi" applied to someone, my first thought is not "what a horror!", but rather "someone disagreed with the far-left again".
And I wouldn't be surprised if someone calls me a nazi after this post, given the fact that I'm Ukrainian, lived in four countries and always work in multicultural environments, my best friend is Israeli and my son-in-law is Lebanese-French (so "nazi" of what "nation" am I?).
The moral? People, think thrice before you call someone a "fascist" or, even worse, a "nazi". It's a very hard insult, and it must be grounded.
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