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by baryphonic 2145 days ago
I have recently begun calling self-described "anti-<X>s" co-<X>s. Co-racists are almost exactly the same as racists, just with slightly different vocabulary that depends on the existence of classic racists. Co-facists are essentially the same thing (any outgroup must be oppressed and overcome at all costs, is simultaneously weak and super-powerful, etc). Marxist regimes are almost always co-capitalist and co-imperialist (such as the largest explicitly Marxist regime today).

The idea is that the relationship between <X> and "co-<X>" is sort of like "domain/codomain," "sine/cosine," "product/co-product," "vector/co-vector," etc. in math, or "dependency/co-dependency" in psychology. "Co-<X>" cannot exist without <X>, but behaves almost exactly the same.