Violent repression of speech is a hallmark of oppressive regimes (putting intellectuals in the gulag for example) and saying such a thing about the left is just

Violent repression of speech is a hallmark of oppressive regimes (putting intellectuals in the gulag for example) and saying such a thing about the left is just as bad as calling them nazi's or murderers. The commenter in question uses more words but it essentially boils down to the same. But nitpicking about what insult is worse is beside the point for me. It is not as if most of the left is out to demonize the right and vice versa, and I regret it if you see it that way, and even more so if you think that one side is worse at it. Putting the whole of society in two camps and ascribing behaviour to them which are exacted by a minority as if they are a homogeneous unit.. oversimplified and prejudiced.