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For those who don't find "far-right" to be an applicable descriptor with what is known currently, I acknowledge that the meme creator could have been more precise with their word choice. However, I feel the difference is academic:

We can replace “far right” with the easily verified “not leftist” without changing the meme whatsoever, primarily because the meme is about Nancy Mace and her mercurial, disingenuous opinion, not (directly) about the shooter.

Edit - I modified it, though I still find it to be a distinction without a difference - alt version for those who prefer (whoops missed one first time)

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[–] buttnugget@lemmy.world 11 points 23 hours ago (2 children)

Is there some kind of “online discourse” about using the term far right instead of non left? That’s ridiculous.

[–] echodot@feddit.uk 4 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

I think some people feel that it's overused. The trouble is that does seem to be how the world works now. You have the left wing politicians, and then you have the far right. Nobody seems to be just moderately right anymore.

So you see a lot of online comments that are accurately describing people as far right to this, and far right that, and it makes it look like the term is overused. But the truth is, the far right are just overly present.

[–] Hanrahan@lemmy.world 3 points 12 hours ago

You have the left wing politicians

All 4 of them

[–] SnoringEarthworm@sh.itjust.works 1 points 20 hours ago (2 children)

Non-left is a bigger tent than far-right.

Yeah it also includes, uh...

[–] wolframhydroxide@sh.itjust.works 1 points 13 hours ago

Tent gets smaller every day, though