Politically correct insults

To say things like “racist” or “fascist” has become these days the equivalent of what in the past could have been, I suppose, “sinner” or “heretic”.

I mean that they are and are meant as just insults thrown at somebody, and they don’t have any of the original meaning any more.

Their over-use and use out of context or rather in the wrong context (in the case of the modern insults) guarantee that their sense has been lost.

They are simply insults representing the current ideology (political correctness), and orthodoxy, much as perhaps the older abuse did.

They have no specific meaning. All they mean is generic. They mean: I am in the majority and you are in the minority, therefore I am right and you are wrong (because for the kind of people who use them might is right).