If a vaguely populist leader started outright talking about supporting fascism, that would quite rightly bring to mind at least Italian Fascism if not German Nazism, and arguing that they just meant the idea of close mutual support and people being stronger together (like a fasces) would not work.
Yeah, a good part of that was because I stayed out of the right-wing cesspits, while taking far too long to leave the left-wing ones, so most of the cess I got was left cess.
The only exception was PCM (joined when it was merely right-leaning and not particularly PC, rather than the outright hive of scum and villainy it became), and there, it was far from progressive.
Misogynistic shithole my ass. There's some misogynists there, but my experience of Reddit was that it was progressive and feminist to an extent rivalling Tumblr.
Progressive censors are just as bad as their right-wing counterparts, but live in a delusional world in which whatever they do is right because they're the ones that do it.
It's neither, it's a rhetorical "you". Should've been clearer about that, sorry.
The thing about the paradox of tolerance is that the intolerance mentioned there is not regular bigotry. It's quite specifically about a threat to the marketplace of ideas.
Then don't call it communism.
If a vaguely populist leader started outright talking about supporting fascism, that would quite rightly bring to mind at least Italian Fascism if not German Nazism, and arguing that they just meant the idea of close mutual support and people being stronger together (like a fasces) would not work.