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by dragonwriter 2624 days ago
> anything Libertarian, (which is labeled "far-right" now)

US Capital-ā€œLā€ Libertarians tend to be solid-to-far right as well as libertarian, but, no, genuine center- and left-libertarian isn't usually called far-right by anyone.

Also, right-libertarians are a pretty big segment of the HN community, possibly more dominant than anything on the left.

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Uh, personalities like Joe Rogan and Tim Pool have been called far-right[0], then there are also secular muslims who get called "anti-muslim extremists" by SPLC[1]. So unless you want to claim that these aren't "true scotsmen", there are most certainly people who get called far-right, who are anything but.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5-A_aNMe1Wk

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maajid_Nawaz#SPLC_claim