People are free to lean left or right. Unfortunately bigotry and racism has been rebranded as simply being right leaning politically. Reading some of his recent articles he's neither left or right - just a bit of a racist bigot.
Agreeing that words like DHH used are code for some kind of racist bigotry, has become a "left-coded" argument; while taking arguments e.g. about high rates of immigration from places with very different norms and culture at face value has become a "right-coded" argument. (Quotation marks because the slang still seems awkward to me.) This is glossing over the fact that everyone ITT has been linking examples of DHH's speech that seem to come from after people got upset with him.
You say "has been rebranded" as if this happened naturally. What I see happening is that it's left-wing political strategy to push that rebranding, and right-wing political strategy to ignore it and/or claim it's absurd.
