And I question if the point of it is truely about protecting people or defining in-groups and out-groups and promoting ideological conformism.
My point is, who cares if this is part of the community's reasoning? All communities are defined by common beliefs.
its more telling that asking us to self reflect on what the contemporary left is evidently such a taboo.
Why do you feel like you can just drop that in without any explanation? Not everything falls into a left-right binary. Open discussions require both sides to be reasonable, you need to provide reasons for your claims, otherwise it's just noise.