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[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It's a word trying to describe the left of a political spectrum as an -ism, which is stupid. It'd be like saying liberals (who are on the right of the political spectrum for you Americans) are the same as fascists because their rightists.

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Categorizing something doesn't mean all subcategories are the same. While you can argue that it's overgeneralizing that would be a different argument. Leftist is used outside of American Politics. I'm not American btw.