When is a red line more of a grey area?

[kandrathe]

But there are different degrees of being reactionary admittedly.

It's like a Marxist epithet -- akin to being labeled by *real* Marxists as a "cultural Marxist". The Frankfort school, relocated to Columbia U - has spent 100 some years getting the Marx out of Marxism and re-branding it for college consumption(as well as Antonio Gramsci, and Gustavo Gutiérrez with liberation theology).

Obviously we are along way away from the original French revolutionaries use of it to describe the Catholic Church, and the Monarchy seeking to conserve the status quo.

I just substitute another pejorative synonym like "pig headed" or "unevolved" -- and I think that is how Marxists intend it to be read.