Sometimes it involves cherrypicking for when a reactionary among us says something shitty (before they get banned for saying it), and other times it’s based on reflexive reactions, “denying” this or that “genocide” or other mass-death event, for example, because to many people Stalin is Super Hitler and repeating mainstream neoliberal historiography about the Holodomor not being intentionally “perpetrated” by anyone but the kulaks (who weren’t the biggest issue, to be clear to whichever libs are reading) is the same to them as Holocaust denial. Some people have just read a hundred thousand reddit comments about Uighurs being exterminated, so when you say that that’s ridiculous and the most you can say is that there have been custodial deaths with no evidence of murder, and otherwise there were “merely” various types of repression that do not constitute genocide, well, you’re now a Holocaust denier times two, which is even worse than the normal Holocaust deniers because they only deny one Holocaust.

Also sometimes people saying things like roux just said above you, which are genuinely unhealthy. Goat clearly needs some sort of intervention, but not a fucking execution or any kind of physical harm.