Explain SMBC — the wiki for Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal

This single-panel comic presents a hypothetical idea: "Force all groups to take the name given by their opponents." The result, it suggests, is that court cases would become "way more interesting." A judge is shown ruling: "In the case of Fascists vs. Babykillers, this court rules in favor of Babykillers."

The joke satirizes the tendency of opposing political and social groups to use the most inflammatory possible labels for each other. In the real world, groups on opposite sides of contentious issues (such as the abortion debate) often characterize each other in the most unflattering terms -- calling opponents "fascists" or "baby killers." The comic imagines a world where these derogatory labels become the official legal names of the groups, leading to courtroom proceedings that sound absurd and horrifying regardless of the outcome. The humor lies in the incongruity of serious legal language applied to such loaded, hyperbolic names.