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by Volker_W 1453 days ago
Ever heard of hate-speech laws? To be fair, your question would need reordering:

Aren't left-wing groups changing relevant laws, then saving the information of right-wingers, then deploying state power against them?

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> Ever heard of hate-speech laws?

Yes. Enforcing hate speech laws doesn't involve mass surveillance of an entire class of people, because by definition most hate speech laws only apply to public speech. Enforcing anti-abortion laws, on the other hand, does, or at least these anti-abortion groups think it should and are taking that into their own hands.

> Aren't left-wing groups changing relevant laws, then saving the information of right-wingers, then deploying state power against them?

This does not describe an analogous behavior to that discussed in the OP.