LH,

I do not read any toxic beliefs into your post. I merely (merrily?) smiled about the surface form of your post which invited deliberate misreadings.

Read your post again:
(1) It comes immediately after the post by CarolC decrying "racism". In that context your To call someone a "racist", of course, is also a very handy way of destroying his reputation could be read easily with a different angle than the one I knew you did intend.
(2) All you post is about labels:
communist, fellow traveler, Muslim, anti-Semite, racist, socialist, in that order. This too invites another reading than the one you did intend.

Wolfgang