I think most people who are being described as racists, colonists, or fascists are racists, colonists, or fascists, but they're the same people who own the megaphone that tells you they're not. Can you bring specific examples?
Perhaps, but the same argument also works for "Communist" and "Socialist" and so on.
A former partner's mother was once called a liberal or a democrat for something minor, I forget what now possibly asking for a tip, and her response was "No sir, I'm a communist".
I'm never actually delved too deeply into the mother's political views, but my ex herself was openly, explicitly, literally, a communist.
(For various reasons, even though said ex is American by birth, I suspect her well-documented politics may now cause me difficulty entering the USA were I to attempt it).
