if we keep pushing this rhetoric, we will create two very real scenarios:
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a leftist activist said something [insert a form of bigotry]? they're not leftist then! actually, they've never been leftist from the beginning!
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you accuse ME, a leftist, of saying or doing something [insert a form of bigotry]? but i'm A LEFTIST, you are wrong and you're trying to cause an infighting!
it just feels awful.