It’s not gatekeeping to point out that ‘leftist’ historically doesn’t mean ‘left of center’. It’s used as a reductive - but that’s the nature of trying to reduce political ideologies to a single term - label for ideologies that are anti-capitalist. Nothing Linus said in this post points to him being anti-capitalist, he only commented on social issues.

He might still be a leftist, I’ll give you that, but this post doesn’t really show that.

Maybe it’s just the .world folks but yeah somehow “leftist” on this site has come to mean “left of the American center”…

Very loose definition of “leftist” there but we take a W where we can.