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What is "far right"? Is there "near right"? "middle-reach right"? 'Far right' is just a BS title used to 'adjust' the perception of people that anyone not left wing is crazy extremist nutjob.

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> What is "far right"?

Someone with ideological beliefs that are either far away from or diametrically opposed to those on the left.

> just a BS title

So is "the left" and "Republican," but we need terms to help us communicate ideas to other people. What would you call what I described above?

"Far-right" as opposed to just "right" or "conservative" makes it sound like they're more than a standard deviation more right-leaning than the typical conservative. It makes the action of moving to open source sound like it's being done by extremists as opposed to conservatives in general

In this post-BLM world, we have to treat people who don't take affirmative stances on protecting the marginalized as if they were far-right. "If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor." --Desmond Tutu

Is this a post-BLM world? The phrase would suggest they are no longer around, but they very much are.

> Is this a post-BLM world?

Pretty much can be confirmed by google trends:

https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=today%205-y&q=...

Fair to say it will be back in 2024?

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