Being called right-wing functioned as a slur in 2014 Brazilian politics

Evidence

Aécio said Dilma had mismanaged the economy, and he would do better. His program called for more “market-based” solutions, a script that is uncontroversially considered right-of-center around the world. But Aécio’s camp and many supporters firmly rejected that they were to the “right” of anything at all. In Brazil, this was seen as something more like a slur than cold description. To be “right” here still meant to be antidemocratic and reactionary. — Vincent Bevins, If We Burn, 539

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Brazil’s post-dictatorship history produced an ‘embarrassed right’ muted in 2012 — Vincent Bevins, If We Burn: The Mass Protest Decade and…, 315; The Brazilian right muted itself because it had backed dictatorship — Vincent Bevins, If We Burn: The Mass Protest Decade and…, 315

Broader Connections

• The Brazilian right muted itself because it had backed dictatorship #qualifies (0.78) — Vincent Bevins, If We Burn, 315