There's a certain family of oft-posted-about-online economic/political ideologies that, as best I can tell, spread primarily by abusing language in this way, hoping the reader does not catch them sliding in a metaphorical, colloquial, or simply not-quite-right terms, then trying to leverage those terms' stricter and more correct definitions when drawing conclusions. Later the converted reader will happily and confidently spread the same message, e.g. "taxation IS theft!"