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If "far right" were used to mean "not socialist" by the media, then the media would call non-socialist parties "far right".
If you're reacting in part to the emotional tone of my comment, then fair enough, I do have feelings about what's (in my personal perspective) happened to The Motte. So my phrasing is admittedly not emotionally balanced/level.
That would only be true if the media had to use only one single term to describe the whole spectrum of parties. Then this term would either be "far right" or not, and your claim would be correct. However, in reality it uses a variety of terms, and some of them are used without any accuracy, as general pejorative labels. That doesn't mean the media always wants to use general perjoratives when talking about every party, of course.
I am flattered to be elected (by a single vote, but apparently it's enough) a representative of the whole forum, but I think your lament is rather misguided and driven by misunderstanding more than anything. You may consider that if somebody tells you they didn't mean what you say they mean, then maybe they didn't mean what you say they mean.
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